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H.R. 4435—FY15 NATIONAL DEFENSE

AUTHORIZATION BILL

SUBCOMMITTEE ON READINESS

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Table Of Contents

DIVISION A—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS

TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE B—ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROVISIONS

Section 311—Elimination of Fiscal Year Limitation on Prohibition of Payment

of Fines and Penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense

Section 313—Congressional Notice of Bulk Purchase of Alternative Fuels for

Operational Use

SUBTITLE C—LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT

Section 321—Additional Requirement for Strategic Policy on Prepositioning of

Materiel and Equipment

Section 322—Comptroller General Reports on Department of Defense

Prepositioning Strategic Policy and Plan for Prepositioned Stocks

Section 323—Pilot Program on Provision of Logistic Support for the

Conveyance of Excess Defense Articles to Allied Forces

SUBTITLE D—REPORTS

Section 331—Repeal of Annual Report on Department of Defense Operation

and Financial Support for Military Museums

Section 333—Army Assessment of the Regionally Aligned Force

SUBTITLE F—OTHER MATTERS

Section 351—Clarification of Authority Relating to Provision of Installation-

Support Services through Intergovernmental Support Agreements

TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND

MANAGEMENT LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MANAGEMENT

Section 904—Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and

Environment

Section 905—Requirement for Congressional Briefing before Divesting of

Defense Finance and Accounting Service Functions

Section 907—Authority to Require Employees of the Department of Defense

and Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to Occupy

Quarters on a Rental Basis while Performing Official Travel

Section 908—Single Standard Mileage Reimbursement Rate for Privately

Owned Automobiles of Government Employees and Members of the Uniformed

Services

SUBTITLE B—TOTAL FORCE MANAGEMENT

Section 911—Modifications to Biennial Strategic Workforce Plan Relating to

Senior Management, Functional, and Technical Workforce of the Department

of Defense

TITLE X—GENERAL PROVISIONS

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LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE E—MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITIES AND LIMITATIONS

Section 1042—Authority to Accept Voluntary Services of Law Students and

Persons Studying to be Paralegals

Section 1043—Expansion of Authority for Secretary of Defense to Use the

Department of Defense Reimbursement Rate for Transportation Services

Provided to Certain Non-Department of Defense Entities

Section 1044—Repeal of Authority Relating to Use of Military Installations by

Civil Reserve Air Fleet Contractors

Section 1047—Limitation on Use of Russian-Flagged Airlift Aircraft to

Support the Airlift Movement Requirements of the United States

Transportation Command

TITLE XI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL MATTERS LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 1101—One-Year Extension of Authority To Waive Annual Limitation on

Premium Pay and Aggregate Limitation on Pay for Federal Civilian Employees

Working Overseas

Section 1102—One-Year Extension of Discretionary Authority to Grant

Allowances, Benefits, and Gratuities to Personnel on Official Duty in a Combat

Zone

Section 1103—Revision to List of Science and Technology Reinvention

Laboratories

Section 1104—Permanent Authority for Experimental Personnel Program for

Scientific and Technical Personnel

Section 1105—Temporary Authorities for Certain Positions at Department of

Defense Research and Engineering Facilities

DIVISION B—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS Section 2001—Short Title

Section 2002—Expiration of Authorizations and Amounts Required To Be

Specified by Law

Section 2003—Effective Date

TITLE XXI—ARMY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2101—Authorized Army Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

Section 2102—Family Housing

Section 2103—Authorization of Appropriations, Army

Section 2104—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2004

Project


Projects

Section 2106—Extension of Authorization of Certain Fiscal Year 2011 Project

Section 2107—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2012 Projects

TITLE XXII—NAVY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

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Section 2201—Authorized Navy Construction and Land Acquisition Projects


Section 2203—Improvements to Military Family Housing Units

Section 2204—Authorization of Appropriations, Navy


Projects


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TITLE XXIII—AIR FORCE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2301—Authorized Air Force Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

Section 2302—Authorization of Appropriations, Air Force

Section 2303—Modification of Authority to Carry out Certain Fiscal Year 2008

Project



TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—DEFENSE AGENCY AUTHORIZATIONS

Section 2401—Authorized Defense Agencies Construction and Land

Acquisition Projects

Section 2402—Authorized Energy Conservation Projects

Section 2403—Authorization of Appropriations, Defense Agencies

Section 2404—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2011

Projects

Section 2405—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2012

Projects

Section 2406—Limitation on Project Authorization to Carry Out Certain

Fiscal Year 2015 Projects Pending Submission of Required Reports

SUBTITLE B—CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION AUTHORIZATIONS

Section 2411—Authorization of Appropriations, Chemical Demilitarization

Construction, Defense-Wide


Project

TITLE XXV—NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION

SECURITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2501—Authorized NATO Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

Section 2502—Authorization of Appropriations, NATO

TITLE XXVI—GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS AND AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

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Section 2601—Authorized Army National Guard Construction and Land


Section 2602—Authorized Army Reserve Construction and Land Acquisition

Projects

Section 2603—Authorized Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve

Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

Section 2604—Authorized Air National Guard Construction and Land


Section 2605—Authorized Air Force Reserve Construction and Land


Section 2606—Authorization of Appropriations, National Guard and Reserve

SUBTITLE B—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2611—Modification and Extension of Authority to Carry Out Certain

Fiscal Year 2012 Projects

Section 2612—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year

2013 Project


TITLE XXVII—BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACTIVITIES LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 2701—Authorization of Appropriations for Base Realignment and

Closure Activities Funded Through Department of Defense Base Closure

Account

SUBTITLE B—PROHIBITION ON ADDITIONAL BRAC ROUND

Section 2711—Prohibition on Conducting Additional Base Realignment and

Closure (BRAC) Round

SUBTITLE C—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2721—Force-Structure Plans and Infrastructure Inventory and

Assessment of Infrastructure Necessary to Support the Force Structure

Section 2722—Modification of Property Disposal Procedures Under Base

Realignment and Closure Process

Section 2723—Final Settlement of Claims Regarding Caretaker Agreement for

Former Defense Depot Ogden, Utah

TITLE XXVIII—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION GENERAL

PROVISIONS LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING

CHANGES

Section 2802—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Unspecified Minor

Military Construction

Section 2803—Use of One-Step Turn-Key Contractor Selection Procedures for

Additional Facility Projects

Section 2804—Extension of Limitation on Construction Projects in European

Command Area of Responsibility

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SUBTITLE B—REAL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION

Section 2811—Consultation Requirement in Connection with Department of

Defense Major Land Acquisitions

Section 2812—Renewals, Extensions, and Succeeding Leases for Financial

Institutions Operating on Military Installations

Section 2813—Arsenal Installation Reutilization Authority

Section 2814—Deposit of Reimbursed Funds to Cover Administrative

Expenses Relating to Certain Real Property Transactions

SUBTITLE C—PROVISIONS RELATED TO ASIA-PACIFIC MILITARY REALIGNMENT

Section 2831—Repeal or Modification of Certain Restrictions on Realignment

of Marine Corps Forces in Asia-Pacific Region

SUBTITLE D—LAND CONVEYANCES

Section 2842—Land Conveyance, Former Walter Reed Army Hospital, District

of Columbia

Section 2843—Transfers of Administrative Jurisdiction, Camp Frank D.

Merrill and Lake Lanier, Georgia

Section 2844—Land Conveyance, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii

Section 2845—Land Conveyance, Robert H. Dietz Army Reserve Center,

Kingston, New York

Section 2846—Exercise of Reversionary Interest, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma

SUBTITLE E—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2861—Memorial to the Victims of the Shooting Attack at the

Washington Navy Yard

Section 2862—Redesignation of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies as

the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

Section 2863—Redesignation of Pohakuloa Training Area in Hawaii as the

Pohakuloa Training Center

Section 2864—Designation of Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial

in Riverside, California

Section 2865—Renaming Site of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National

Historical Park, Ohio

Section 2866—Manhattan Project National Historical Park

TITLE XXIX—MILITARY LAND TRANSFERS AND

WITHDRAWALS TO SUPPORT READINESS AND SECURITY LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, NEVADA

Section 2901—Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction, Naval Air Station

Fallon, Nevada

Section 2902—Water Rights

Section 2903—Withdrawal

SUBTITLE B—MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS,

CALIFORNIA

Section 2911—Redesignation of Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle

Recreation Area, California

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SUBTITLE C—BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT WITHDRAWN MILITARY LANDS

EFFICIENCY AND SAVINGS

Section 2921—Elimination of Termination Date for Public Land Withdrawals

and Reservations Under Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999

DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL

SECURITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND OTHER

AUTHORIZATIONS

TITLE XXXIV—NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 3401—Authorization of Appropriations


TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE


SUBTITLE B—ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROVISIONS

Section 311—Elimination of Fiscal Year Limitation on Prohibition of Payment of

Fines and Penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense

This section would eliminate a sunset date for the requirement for the

Department of Defense to obtain congressional authorization before paying fines

and penalties under the requirement set forth in section 2703 of title 10, United

States Code. The current requirement for congressional authorization does not

apply to funds authorized to be appropriated to the Environmental Restoration

Account, Defense after fiscal year 2010. This section would strike any such date

limitation.

Section 313—Congressional Notice of Bulk Purchase of Alternative Fuels for

Operational Use

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to notify the

congressional defense committees 60 days before the bulk purchase of alternative

fuels intended for operational use.

SUBTITLE C—LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT

Section 321—Additional Requirement for Strategic Policy on Prepositioning of

Materiel and Equipment

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This section would amend the strategic policy on prepositioned materiel

and equipment required by section 2229(a) of title 10, United States Code, to ensure

newly established crisis response elements are considered when developing goals,

assessing challenges, and synchronizing requirements.

Section 322—Comptroller General Reports on Department of Defense

Prepositioning Strategic Policy and Plan for Prepositioned Stocks

This section would modify the reporting requirement in section 321 of the

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66) to run

through 2017, 3 years following the initial report due in 2014, for a total of four

reports over 4 years.

Section 323—Pilot Program on Provision of Logistic Support for the Conveyance of

Excess Defense Articles to Allied Forces

This section would create a 2-year pilot program allowing the Secretary of

Defense to provide logistics support for the conveyance of excess defense articles to

allied forces participating in bilateral or multilateral training activities with the

Armed Forces of the United States. This authority would be subject to funding

limitations and would expire on September 30, 2016. The Secretary of Defense

would be required to provide a report on the use of the authority to certain

congressional committees at the end of any calendar year during which the

Secretary carried out the pilot program.

SUBTITLE D—REPORTS

Section 331—Repeal of Annual Report on Department of Defense Operation and

Financial Support for Military Museums

This section would repeal an annual report by the Secretary of Defense on

Department of Defense operations and financial support for military museums

required by section 489 of title 10, United States Code.

Section 333—Army Assessment of the Regionally Aligned Force

This section would require the Secretary of the Army to submit a strategic

assessment of the regionally aligned force to the congressional defense committees

concurrent with the submission of the President's budget for fiscal year 2016

pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code.

The committee supports the U.S. Army's regionally aligned force (RAF)

concept, but has concerns about the institutionalization of pre-deployment training,

incorporation of lessons learned, and the adequate coordination of activities

between contractors, Special Operations Forces, Army RAF units, and joint exercise

partners. The committee is also concerned about the complexity of utilizing

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multiple funding authorities to support RAF activities and impacts associated with

the long-term commitment of RAF forces to meet security cooperation requirements.

The committee believes better coordination and long-term planning are needed to

ensure RAF units maintain high levels of core mission readiness while supporting

geographic combatant commander requirements.

The committee notes that while elsewhere in this report, the committee also

directs the Comptroller General of the United States to assess the RAF concept,

more specifically its employment in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility,

the committee expects the assessment required by this section to be a separate and

distinct forward-looking, internal assessment of the RAF concept, yet inform the

Comptroller General’s work.

SUBTITLE F—OTHER MATTERS

Section 351—Clarification of Authority Relating to Provision of Installation-Support

Services through Intergovernmental Support Agreements

This section would transfer and redesignate section 2336 of title 10, United

States Code, to chapter 159 of such title. This section would also define an

intergovernmental support agreement and provide other technical changes.

TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND

MANAGEMENT


SUBTITLE A—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MANAGEMENT

Section 904—Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment

This section would establish the position of the Assistant Secretary of

Defense for Installations and Environment. The position would be appointed by the

President, by and with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. The committee

recognizes that the responsibilities of this organization already exist within the

Department of Defense, reporting to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,

Technology, and Logistics. The creation of this Assistant Secretary of Defense

position shall ensure no net growth in personnel or resources for the organization,

and shall not be exempt from any directed headquarters reductions.

Section 905—Requirement for Congressional Briefing before Divesting of Defense

Finance and Accounting Service Functions

This section would prohibit the transfer of financial management functions

out of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) until the Secretary of

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Defense privdes a briefing to the congressional defense committees on a transfer

plan and certifies the transfer would reduce costs, increase efficiencies, maintain

the timeline for auditability of financial statements, and maintain the roles and

missions of DFAS.

Section 907—Authority to Require Employees of the Department of Defense and

Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to Occupy Quarters on a

Rental Basis while Performing Official Travel

This section would permit the Secretary of Defense to direct the use of

adequate Government quarters, or the use of Government-leased quarters or

lodging arranged through a Government program, by civilian employees and

Uniformed Service members, while performing official travel. Section 5911(e) of title

5, United States Code, currently states that an agency head may not require an

employee or member of a Uniformed Service to occupy quarters on a rental basis

unless the agency head determines that necessary service cannot be rendered or

that Government property cannot adequately be protected otherwise. This change

to title 5 is intended to provide travel cost savings and other benefits to the

Department of Defense, without significantly reducing the quality and security of

lodging for civilian employees and service members performing official travel.

Section 908—Single Standard Mileage Reimbursement Rate for Privately Owned

Automobiles of Government Employees and Members of the Uniformed Services

This section would establish a rate that provides adequate compensation for

employees who perform temporary duty travel. It would apply to all Federal

Government employees and members of the Uniformed Services traveling on behalf

of the Federal Government in a privately owned automobile.

SUBTITLE B—TOTAL FORCE MANAGEMENT

Section 911—Modifications to Biennial Strategic Workforce Plan Relating to Senior

Management, Functional, and Technical Workforce of the Department of Defense

This section would amend section 115b of title 10, United States Code, to

modify the requirement for the Secretary of Defense to prepare a biennial Strategic

Workforce Plan so as to cover "the senior management workforce" of the

Department of Defense rather than the "senior management, functional, and

technical workforce (including scientists and engineers)."



SUBTITLE E—MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITIES AND LIMITATIONS

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Section 1042—Authority to Accept Voluntary Services of Law Students and Persons

Studying to be Paralegals

This section would amend section 1588 of title 10, United States Code, to

authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to institute unpaid internship

and externship programs for law students.

Section 1043—Expansion of Authority for Secretary of Defense to Use the

Department of Defense Reimbursement Rate for Transportation Services Provided

to Certain Non-Department of Defense Entities

This section would amend section 2642 of title 10, United States Code,

which authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use the Department of Defense

reimbursement rate for transportation services provided to certain non-Department

of Defense entities. That authority allows the Department to provide transportation

services covered by that section at the same rate that the transportation element in

Department of Defense charges Department of Defense units for similar services.

Section 1044—Repeal of Authority Relating to Use of Military Installations by Civil

Reserve Air Fleet Contractors

This section would repeal section 9513 of title 10, United States Code,

relating to the use of military installations by commercial air carriers doing

business with the Department of Defense. Under this program, the Secretary of the

Air Force was authorized for Air Force installations, or in coordination with the

Secretary of the other military services for other than Air Force military

installations, to enter into contracts with air carriers authorizing the use of

designated installations as a weather alternative, as a technical stop not involving

the enplaning or deplaning of passengers or cargo, or, in the case of an installation

within the United States, for other commercial purposes but was never utilized.

Section 1047—Limitation on Use of Russian-Flagged Airlift Aircraft to Support the

Airlift Movement Requirements of the United States Transportation Command

This section would allow the use of Russian-flagged airlift aircraft to

support airlift movement requirements of U.S. Transportation Command

(TRANSCOM) only after the Commander, U.S. Transportation Command certifies

to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of

Representatives, for each manifested cargo mission, that utilizing Russian-flagged

airlift aircraft is the only means available to TRANSCOM to execute that particular

manifested cargo delivery mission.

TITLE XI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL MATTERS


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Section 1101—One-Year Extension of Authority To Waive Annual Limitation on

Premium Pay and Aggregate Limitation on Pay for Federal Civilian Employees

Working Overseas

This section would extend, for 1 year, the authority to waive the limitations

on the amount of premium pay that may be paid to a Federal civilian employee who

performs certain work in an overseas location that falls under the responsibility of

U.S. Central Command, an overseas location that falls under the responsibility of

U.S. Africa Command, in support of a military operation, or in response to an

emergency declared by the President. The payment may not exceed the annual rate

of salary payable to the Vice President under section 104 of title 3, United States

Code.

Section 1102—One-Year Extension of Discretionary Authority to Grant Allowances,

Benefits, and Gratuities to Personnel on Official Duty in a Combat Zone

This section would extend by 1 year the temporary discretionary authority

to Federal agencies to grant allowances, benefits, and gratuities comparable to

those provided to members of the foreign service to an agency’s civilian employees

on official duty in a combat zone.

Section 1103—Revision to List of Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories

This section would amend the list of Science and Technology Reinvention

Laboratories in section 1105(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal

Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84) to include the Army Research Institute for the

Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Space and Missile Defense Command

Technical Center.

Section 1104—Permanent Authority for Experimental Personnel Program for

Scientific and Technical Personnel

This section would remove the sunset date and annual reporting

requirement for section 1101 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105–261).

The committee notes that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

has used this alternative personnel hiring authority to great effect since its

inception. Furthermore, the committee believes that given the limited scope of this

authority, the fact that there have been no reports of misuse or abuse in 15 years,

and the fact that it does not authorize any new civilian billets for the Department of

Defense, this authority should be made permanent. The committee believes that

such unique hiring authorities will be important tools for the technical community

in the Department to recruit, hire, and retain the Nation's top scientific and

engineering talent.

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Section 1105—Temporary Authorities for Certain Positions at Department of

Defense Research and Engineering Facilities

This section would modify section 1107 of the National Defense

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66) to provide direct hiring

authority to the laboratory director of specified laboratories for undergraduate and

certain graduate students enrolled in the scientific, technical, engineering, or

mathematics programs at institutions of higher education on a temporary or term

basis.

DIVISION B—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS

Section 2001—Short Title

This section would cite division B of this Act as the ‘‘Military Construction

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015.’’

Section 2002—Expiration of Authorizations and Amounts Required To Be Specified

by Law

This section would ensure that the authorizations provided in titles XXI

through XXVII of this Act shall expire on October 1, 2017, or the date of enactment

of an act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal year 2018, whichever

is later.

Section 2003—Effective Date

This section would provide that titles XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI,

and XXVII of this Act shall take effect on October 1, 2014, or the date of enactment

of this Act, whichever is later.

TITLE XXI—ARMY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION


Section 2101—Authorized Army Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Army construction projects

for fiscal year 2015. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation-by-

installation basis. The state list contained in this Act is intended to be the binding

list of the specific projects authorized at each location.


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This section would authorize new construction and planning and design of

family housing units for the Army for fiscal year 2015.

Section 2103—Authorization of Appropriations, Army

This section would authorize appropriations for Army military construction

at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.


Project

This section would modify the authority provided by section 2101 of the

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (division B of Public

Law 108-136) and authorize the Secretary of the Army to make certain

modifications to the scope of a previously authorized construction project. This

section was included in the President's request.


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modifications to the scope of previously authorized construction projects. This

section was included in the President's request or included as a specific request

from the Secretary of the Army.


This section would extend the authorization listed until October 1, 2015, or

the date of the enactment of an act authorizing funds for military construction for

fiscal year 2016, whichever is later. This section was included in the President's

request.


This section would extend the authorizations listed until October 1, 2015, or



request.

TITLE XXII—NAVY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION


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Section 2201—Authorized Navy Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Navy construction projects

for fiscal year 2015. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation-by-

installation basis. The state list contained in this Act is intended to be the binding

list of the specific projects authorized at each location.


This section would authorize new construction and planning and design of

family housing units for the Navy for fiscal year 2015.

Section 2203—Improvements to Military Family Housing Units

This section would authorize improvements to existing units of family

housing for fiscal year 2015.

Section 2204—Authorization of Appropriations, Navy

This section would authorize appropriations for Navy military construction

at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.


Projects



Law 112-81) and authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make certain modifications

to the scope of a previously authorized construction projects. This section was

included in the President's request.


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Law 113-66) and authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make certain modifications

to the scope of a previously authorized construction project. This section was

included in the President's request.




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request.





request.

TITLE XXIII—AIR FORCE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION


Section 2301—Authorized Air Force Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Air Force construction

projects for fiscal year 2015. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation-

by-installation basis. The state list contained in this Act is intended to be the

binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2302—Authorization of Appropriations, Air Force

This section would authorize appropriations for Air Force military

construction at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.


Project



Law 110-181) and authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to make certain




This section would extend the authorization listed until October 1, 2015, or



request.


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request.

TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION


SUBTITLE A—DEFENSE AGENCY AUTHORIZATIONS

Section 2401—Authorized Defense Agencies Construction and Land Acquisition

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized defense agencies

construction projects for fiscal year 2015. The authorized amounts are listed on an

installation-by-installation basis. The state list contained in this Act is intended to

be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2402—Authorized Energy Conservation Projects

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to carry out energy

conservation projects at the amounts authorized for each project at a specific

location valued at a cost greater than $2.0 million. This section would also

authorize the sum total of projects across various locations, each project of which is

less than $2.0 million.

Section 2403—Authorization of Appropriations, Defense Agencies

This section would authorize appropriations for defense agencies' military






request.





request.

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Section 2406—Limitation on Project Authorization to Carry Out Certain Fiscal

Year 2015 Projects Pending Submission of Required Reports

This section would restrict the obligation of funds to support human

performance center initiatives at certain locations, until the Secretary of Defense

submits a report on this program that was required in the Joint Explanatory

Statement to Accompany the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year

2014, as printed in the Congressional Record on December 12, 2013 (page H7956),

and a report on the review of Department of Defense efforts regarding the

prevention of suicide among members of United States Special Operations Forces

and their dependents required elsewhere in this Act.

SUBTITLE B—CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION AUTHORIZATIONS

Section 2411—Authorization of Appropriations, Chemical Demilitarization

Construction, Defense-Wide

This section would authorize appropriations for chemical demilitarization



Project



Law 107-107), as amended, and authorize the Secretary of Defense to make certain



TITLE XXV—NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION

SECURITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM


Section 2501—Authorized NATO Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to make

contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment

Program in an amount equal to the sum of the amount specifically authorized in

section 2502 of this Act and the amount of recoupment due to the United States for

construction previously financed by the United States.

Section 2502—Authorization of Appropriations, NATO

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This section would authorize appropriations for the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization Security Investment Program at the levels identified in section 4601

of division D of this Act.

TITLE XXVI—GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES


SUBTITLE A—PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS AND AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 2601—Authorized Army National Guard Construction and Land Acquisition

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Army National Guard




Section 2602—Authorized Army Reserve Construction and Land Acquisition

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Army Reserve construction

projects for fiscal year 2015. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation-

by-installation basis. The state list contained in this Act is intended to be the

binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2603—Authorized Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve Construction

and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Navy Reserve and Marine

Corps Reserve construction projects for fiscal year 2015. The authorized amounts

are listed on an installation-by-installation basis. The state list contained in this

Act is intended to be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each

location.

Section 2604—Authorized Air National Guard Construction and Land Acquisition

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Air National Guard




Section 2605—Authorized Air Force Reserve Construction and Land Acquisition

Projects

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This section would contain the list of authorized Air Force Reserve




Section 2606—Authorization of Appropriations, National Guard and Reserve

This section would authorize appropriations for the National Guard and

Reserve military construction at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of

this Act.

SUBTITLE B—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2611—Modification and Extension of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal

Year 2012 Projects



Law 112-81) and authorize the Secretary of the Army to make certain modifications

to the scope of a previously authorized construction project. This section would also

extend the authorizations listed until October 1, 2018, or the date of the enactment

of an act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal year 2019, whichever

is later. This section was included in the President's request.


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request.

TITLE XXVII—BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACTIVITIES


SUBTITLE A—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

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Section 2701—Authorization of Appropriations for Base Realignment and Closure

Activities Funded Through Department of Defense Base Closure Account

This section would authorize appropriations for ongoing activities that are

required to implement the decision of Base Realignment and Closure activities at

the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—PROHIBITION ON ADDITIONAL BRAC ROUND

Section 2711—Prohibition on Conducting Additional Base Realignment and Closure

(BRAC) Round

This section would affirm congressional intent to reject the budget request

to authorize another Base Realignment and Closure round in 2017.

SUBTITLE C—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2721—Force-Structure Plans and Infrastructure Inventory and Assessment

of Infrastructure Necessary to Support the Force Structure

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report as

part of the budget justification documents submitted to Congress in support of the

President's budget for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2016 that details

(1) a 20-year force structure plan, and (2) a comprehensive inventory of worldwide

infrastructure. The report shall also compare these two items to determine

categories of excess in the Department of Defense infrastructure. The Secretary of

Defense shall also certify whether the need exists for the closure or realignment of

additional military installations and whether the Secretary anticipates that each

Base Closure and Realignment recommendation would result in annual net savings

for each of the military departments within 6 years after the initiation of the

additional round of closures and realignments.

This section would also require that within 60 days of submission of the

Secretary of Defense report, the Comptroller General of the United States shall

evaluate the accuracy and analytical sufficiency of the plan and inventory.

Section 2722—Modification of Property Disposal Procedures Under Base

Realignment and Closure Process

This section would authorize the local government, in whose jurisdiction

the military installation is wholly located, to be recognized as the local reuse

authority for purposes of managing Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) reuse

planning. This section would also require the Secretary of Defense to submit a

report to the congressional defense committees as to excess BRAC property that has

not been declared surplus by the Federal Government.

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Section 2723—Final Settlement of Claims Regarding Caretaker Agreement for

Former Defense Depot Ogden, Utah

This section would limit any further claim adjudication associated with a

caretaker agreement between the City of Ogden, Utah, the Ogden Local

Redevelopment Authority, and the Department of the Army. This limitation would

be conditioned on a release of claims against the United States by the City of Ogden

and the Ogden Local Redevelopment Authority.


PROVISIONS


SUBTITLE A—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING

CHANGES

Section 2802—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Unspecified Minor Military

Construction

This section would modify section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, by

increasing the threshold associated with operation and maintenance funding for

construction purposes from $750,000 to $1.0 million. This section would also unify

the threshold for application of unspecified minor construction from $2.0 million to

$3.0 million. Finally, this section would authorize the Secretary concerned to make

adjustments to the general authority to match area cost factors.

Section 2803—Use of One-Step Turn-Key Contractor Selection Procedures for

Additional Facility Projects

This section would modify section 2862 of title 10, United States Code, to

expand the existing authority to use turn-key selection procedures for military

construction projects to also include certain repair projects and facility construction

associated with authorized security assistance activities.

Section 2804—Extension of Limitation on Construction Projects in European

Command Area of Responsibility

This section would extend the prohibition previously included in section

2809 of the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (division B

of Public Law 113–66) on awarding a contract for any new military construction and

family housing project, with certain exceptions, in the U.S. European Command

area of responsibility until the Secretary of Defense certifies to the congressional

defense committees that the installations and specific military construction

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requirements authorized in this Act have been examined as part of the ongoing

European Infrastructure Consolidation Assessment, have been determined to be of

an enduring nature, and most effectively meet military requirements at the

authorized location.

SUBTITLE B—REAL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION

Section 2811—Consultation Requirement in Connection with Department of

Defense Major Land Acquisitions

This section would require consultation by the Secretary concerned with the

chief executive officer of the state or territory as to the location of any proposed

major land acquisition.

The committee notes that the Secretary concerned is already required to

obtain a specific military construction authorization in accordance with section 2802

of title 10, United States Code, and comply with National Environmental Policy Act

of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321) before any major land acquisition can be implemented.

Section 2812—Renewals, Extensions, and Succeeding Leases for Financial

Institutions Operating on Military Installations

This section would authorize the Secretary concerned to enter into a sole

source renewal, extension or succeeding lease for a financial institution operating

on military installations.

Section 2813—Arsenal Installation Reutilization Authority

This section would modify section 2667 of title 10, United States Code, to

provide the authorities to lease real or personal property contained in such section

to the commander of military manufacturing arsenals or, if part of a larger military

installation, the installation commander for the purposes of leveraging private

investment at military manufacturing arsenals through long-term facility use

contracts, property management contracts, leases, or other such agreements. This

section does not supersede authorities in section 4544 of title 10, United States

Code, and is designed to give the commander of military manufacturing arsenals or,

if part of a larger military installation, the installation commander, greater

flexibility to utilize unused administrative and warehouse space at military

installations.

Section 2814—Deposit of Reimbursed Funds to Cover Administrative Expenses

Relating to Certain Real Property Transactions

This section would amend section 2695 of title 10, United States Code, and

would provide flexibility to ensure that reimbursements eventually received by the

military departments are not expired at the time of reimbursement. This section

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would provide for the merger of the reimbursed funds with those in the current

appropriation, fund, or account used by the military departments for payment of

administrative transaction-related expenses. Finally, this section would authorize

the military departments to use operation and maintenance appropriations to pay

for administrative expenses needed to complete other real property transactions.

SUBTITLE C—PROVISIONS RELATED TO ASIA-PACIFIC MILITARY REALIGNMENT

Section 2831—Repeal or Modification of Certain Restrictions on Realignment of

Marine Corps Forces in Asia-Pacific Region

This section would amend section 2822 of the Military Construction

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (division B of Public Law 113-66) and strike

certain restrictions limiting the movement of Marine Corps forces from Okinawa,

Japan to Guam.

SUBTITLE D—LAND CONVEYANCES

Section 2842—Land Conveyance, Former Walter Reed Army Hospital, District of

Columbia

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey, without

consideration, certain Army facilities at the former Walter Reed Army Hospital to

Children's Hospital for medical research purposes.

Section 2843—Transfers of Administrative Jurisdiction, Camp Frank D. Merrill and

Lake Lanier, Georgia

This section would require the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of

Agriculture to exchange lands located Camp Frank D. Merrill in Dahlonega,

Georgia, currently under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of

Agriculture, for certain lands adjacent to Lake Lanier, Georgia, currently under the

administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army.

Section 2844—Land Conveyance, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey, without

consideration, approximately 1.2 acres of public land to the Honolulu Authority for

Rapid Transportation for public purposes.

Section 2845—Land Conveyance, Robert H. Dietz Army Reserve Center, Kingston,

New York

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This section would authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey, without

consideration, the former Robert H. Dietz Army Reserve Center to the City of

Kingston, New York, for public purposes.

Section 2846—Exercise of Reversionary Interest, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma

This section would require the Secretary of the Army to perform a business

case analysis to assess the requirements associated with reacquiring the former

Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. If the Secretary determines that a reversion of the former

Camp Gruber is needed for national defense purposes, the Secretary shall exercise

the reversionary rights and request the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife to

reconvey Camp Gruber to the United States. The Secretary shall then convey,

without consideration, the former Camp Gruber to the Oklahoma Military

Department for military maneuver space.

SUBTITLE E—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2861—Memorial to the Victims of the Shooting Attack at the Washington

Navy Yard

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to establish a

memorial at the Washington Navy Yard in the District of Columbia. The memorial

will be dedicated to the victims of the shooting attack that occurred on September

16, 2013.

Section 2862—Redesignation of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies as the

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

This section would name the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies at

Honolulu, Hawaii, as the "Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security

Studies", and would make other conforming changes.

Section 2863—Redesignation of Pohakuloa Training Area in Hawaii as the

Pohakuloa Training Center

This section would change the designation of the Pohakuloa Training Area

in Hawaii to the Pohakuloa Training Center.

Section 2864—Designation of Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial in

Riverside, California

This section would authorize a memorial to members of the Armed Forces

who have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The memorial is located at

March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California, and would hereby be designated

as the Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial.

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Section 2865—Renaming Site of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical

Park, Ohio

This section would modify the name of the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright

Brothers Aviation Center, Dayton, Ohio, to the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers

National Museum, Dayton, Ohio.

Section 2866—Manhattan Project National Historical Park

This section would authorize the Secretary of Interior to establish the

Manhattan Project National Historical Park as a unit of the National Park System.

TITLE XXIX—MILITARY LAND TRANSFERS AND WITHDRAWALS

TO SUPPORT READINESS AND SECURITY


SUBTITLE A—NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, NEVADA

Section 2901—Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction, Naval Air Station Fallon,

Nevada

This section would transfer certain public lands adjacent to Naval Air

Station Fallon in Churchill County, Nevada, from the Secretary of the Interior to

the Secretary of the Navy.

Section 2902—Water Rights

This section would ensure that the United States does not acquire

additional water rights as a result of the transfer of administrative jurisdiction

authorized by this subtitle.

Section 2903—Withdrawal

This section would withdraw lands transferred by this subtitle from all

forms of appropriation under public land laws so long as the land remains under the

administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy.

SUBTITLE B—MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS,

CALIFORNIA

Section 2911—Redesignation of Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation

Area, California

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This section would rename the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle

Recreation Area in California, as the Johnson Valley National Off-Highway Vehicle

Recreation Area.

SUBTITLE C—BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT WITHDRAWN MILITARY LANDS

EFFICIENCY AND SAVINGS

Section 2921—Elimination of Termination Date for Public Land Withdrawals and

Reservations Under Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999

This section would extend the public lands withdrawn for military purposes

listed in the Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999 (title 30 of Public Law 106-65)

until the Secretary of the military department determines a military purpose does

not exist, or the Secretary of Interior permanently transfers the administrative

jurisdiction to the Secretary of the military department concerned.

DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL

SECURITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND OTHER

AUTHORIZATIONS

TITLE XXXIV—NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES


Section 3401—Authorization of Appropriations

This section would authorize $19.9 million for fiscal year 2015 for operation

and maintenance of the Naval Petroleum and Oil Reserves.

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BILL LANGUAGE

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Subtitle B—Energy and 1

Environment 2

SEC. 311 [Log 53201]. ELIMINATION OF FISCAL YEAR LIMITA-3

TION ON PROHIBITION OF PAYMENT OF 4

FINES AND PENALTIES FROM THE ENVIRON-5

MENTAL RESTORATION ACCOUNT, DEFENSE. 6

Section 2703(f) of title 10, United States Code, is 7

amended—8

(1) by striking ‘‘for fiscal years 1995 through 9

2010,’’; and 10

(2) by striking ‘‘for fiscal years 1997 through 11

2010’’.12

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SEC. 313 [Log 53705]. CONGRESSIONAL NOTICE OF BULK 1

PURCHASE OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS FOR 2

OPERATIONAL USE. 3

Not later than 60 days before making a bulk pur-4

chase of alternative fuels intended for operational use, the 5

Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional de-6

fense committees notice of the intent to make such a pur-7

chase. Such notice shall include the total quantity of fuel, 8

the cost, and the type of funding intended to be used to 9

make the purchase.10


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Subtitle C—Logistics and 1

Sustainment 2

SEC. 321 [Log 53439]. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR 3

STRATEGIC POLICY ON PREPOSITIONING OF 4

MATERIEL AND EQUIPMENT. 5

Section 2229(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code, 6

is amended by inserting ‘‘support for crisis response ele-7

ments,’’ after ‘‘service requirements,’’.8


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SEC. 322 [Log 53613]. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORTS 1

ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 2

PREPOSITIONING STRATEGIC POLICY AND 3

PLAN FOR PREPOSITIONED STOCKS. 4

Subsection (c) of section 321 of the National Defense 5

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–6

66) is amended to read as follows: 7

‘‘(c) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORTS.—8

‘‘(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 9

days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 10

Comptroller General of the United States shall re-11

view the implementation plan submitted under sub-12

section (b) and the prepositioning strategic policy re-13

quired under section 2229(a) of title 10, United 14

States Code, as amended by subsection (a), and sub-15

mit to the congressional defense committees a report 16

describing the findings of such review and including 17

any additional information relating to the 18

prepositioning strategic policy and plan that the 19

Comptroller General determines appropriate. 20

‘‘(2) FOLLOW-UP REPORTS.—Following the 21

submittal of the initial report required under para-22

graph (1), the Comptroller General shall conduct an-23

nual reviews, for each of the subsequent three years, 24

of the progress of the Department of Defense in im-25

plementing the strategic policy and the Department 26


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plan for prepositioned stocks, and submit to the con-1

gressional defense committees a report containing an 2

assessment of such progress, including any addi-3

tional information related to the management of 4

prepositioned stocks that the Comptroller General 5

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SEC. 323 [Log 53440]. PILOT PROGRAM ON PROVISION OF 1

LOGISTIC SUPPORT FOR THE CONVEYANCE 2

OF EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES TO ALLIED 3

FORCES. 4

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense may es-5

tablish a pilot program to provide logistic support for the 6

conveyance of excess defense articles to allied forces par-7

ticipating in bilateral or multilateral training activities 8

with the Armed Forces of the United States. 9

(b) LIMITATION.—In carrying out the pilot program 10

under this section, the Secretary may only provide logistic 11

support—12

(1) in accordance with the Arms Export Control 13

Act and other relevant export control laws of the 14

United States; 15

(2) in accordance with section 516(c)(2) of the 16

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j); 17

(3) in direct support of training activities—18

(A) carried out in support of a contingency 19

operation or a noncombat operation (including 20

an operation in support of the provision of hu-21

manitarian or foreign disaster assistance, a 22

country stabilization operation, or a peace-23

keeping operation under chapter VI or VII of 24

the Charter of the United Nations); or 25


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(B) if the Secretary determines that the 1

provision of such support is in the best interest 2

of the Armed Forces of the Unites States. 3

(c) LIMITATION.—The total value of logistic support 4

provided under subsection (a)(1) in any fiscal year may 5

not exceed $10,000,000. 6

(d) TERMINATION.—The authority to carry out pilot 7

program under this section shall terminate on September 8

30, 2016. 9

(e) REPORT.—Not later than December 31 of each 10

year during which the Secretary carried out a pilot pro-11

gram under this section, the Secretary shall submit to the 12

Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on For-13

eign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 14

Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 15

House of Representatives a report on the pilot program 16

under this section during the fiscal year preceding the fis-17

cal year during which the report is submitted. Each such 18

report shall contain each of the following for the fiscal 19

year covered by the report: 20

(1) Each nation for which logistic support was 21

provided under the pilot program. 22

(2) For each such nation, a description of the 23

type and value of logistic support, and the excess de-24

fense article or articles conveyed. 25


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(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 1

(1) The term ‘‘logistics support’’ means—2

(A) the use of military transportation and 3

cargo-handling assets, including aircraft; 4

(B) materiel support in the form of fuel, 5

petroleum, oil, or lubricants; and 6

(C) commercially contracted transpor-7

tation. 8

(2) The term ‘‘excess defense article’’ has the 9

meaning given such term in section 516(c)(2) of the 10

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j).11


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Subtitle D—Reports 1

SEC. 331 [Log 53683]. REPEAL OF ANNUAL REPORT ON DE-2

PARTMENT OF DEFENSE OPERATION AND FI-3

NANCIAL SUPPORT FOR MILITARY MUSEUMS. 4

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 489 of title 10, United 5

States Code, is repealed. 6

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 7

at the beginning of chapter 23 of such title is amended 8

by striking the item relating to section 489.9


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SEC. 333 [Log 53441]. ARMY ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION-1

ALLY ALIGNED FORCE. 2

At the same time as the President transmits to Con-3

gress the budget for fiscal 2016 year under section 1105 4

of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary of the Army 5

shall submit to the congressional defense committees an 6

assessment of how the Army has—7

(1) captured and incorporated lessons learned 8

through the initial employment of the regionally 9

aligned force in the United States Africa Command 10

area of responsibility; 11

(2) institutionalized and improved 12

predeployment training; 13

(3) improved the coordination of activities be-14

tween special operations forces, Army regionally 15

aligned units, contractors of the Department of 16

State, contractors of the Department of Defense, the 17

geographic combatant commands, the Joint Staff, 18

and international partners; 19

(4) accounted for all the various funding 20

streams used to fund regionally aligned force activi-21

ties, including the amount of funds expended from 22

each account; 23

(5) assessed the impacts associated with long-24

term commitments of regionally aligned forces to 25

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(6) maintained high levels of core mission readi-1

ness while supporting geographic combatant com-2

mander requirements through regionally aligned 3

force activities; 4

(7) planned for expansion of the regionally 5

aligned force model; and 6

(8) planned to retain regional expertise within 7

units habitually aligned to a specific region.8


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Subtitle F—Other Matters 1

SEC. 351[Log 53704]. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY RELAT-2

ING TO PROVISION OF INSTALLATION-SUP-3

PORT SERVICES THROUGH INTERGOVERN-4

MENTAL SUPPORT AGREEMENTS. 5

(i) TRANSFER OF SECTION 2336 TO CHAPTER 6

159.—7

(1) TRANSFER AND REDESIGNATION.—Section 8

2336 of title 10, United States Code, is transferred 9

to chapter 159 of such title, inserted after section 10

2678, and redesignated as section 2679. 11

(2) REVISED SECTION HEADING.—The heading 12

of such section, as so transferred and redesignated, 13

is amended to read as follows: 14

‘‘§ 2679. Installation-support services: intergovern-15

mental support agreements’’. 16

(b) CLARIFYING AMENDMENTS.—Such section, as so 17

transferred and redesignated, is further amended—18

(1) in subsection (a)—19

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The 20

Secretary concerned’’ and inserting ‘‘Notwith-21

standing any other provision of law, the Sec-22

retary concerned’’; and 23

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(i) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding any 1

other provision of law, an’’ and inserting 2

‘‘An’’; 3

(ii) by striking subparagraph (A); and 4

(iii) by redesignating subparagraphs 5

(B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B) 6

respectively; and 7

(2) by adding at the end of subsection (e) the 8

following new paragraph: 9

‘‘(4) The term ‘intergovernmental support 10

agreement’ means a legal instrument reflecting a re-11

lationship between the Secretary concerned and a 12

State or local government that contains such terms 13

and conditions as the Secretary concerned considers 14

appropriate for the purposes of this section and nec-15

essary to protect the interests of the United 16

States.’’. 17

(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—18

(1) The table of sections at the beginning of 19

chapter 137 of such title is amended by striking the 20

item relating to section 2336. 21

(2) The table of sections at the beginning of 22

chapter 159 of such title is amended by inserting 23

after the item relating to section 2678 the following 24

new item:25

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SEC. 904 [Log 53218]. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 1

FOR INSTALLATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT. 2

(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF POSITION.—Section 138(b) 3

of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at 4

the end the following new paragraph: 5

‘‘(11) One of the Assistant Secretaries is the Assist-6

ant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environ-7

ment. In addition to any duties and powers prescribed 8

under paragraph (1), the Assistant Secretary of Defense 9

for Installations and Environment shall have the duties 10

specified in section 138e of this title.’’. 11

(b) DUTIES.—12

(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 4 of such title is 13

amended by inserting after section 138d the fol-14

lowing new section: 15

‘‘§ 138e. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installa-16

tions and Environment 17

‘‘(a) The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installa-18

tions and Environment shall—19

‘‘(1) provide leadership and facilitate commu-20

nication regarding, and conduct oversight to manage 21

and be accountable for, military construction and en-22

vironmental programs within the Department of De-23

fense and the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine 24

Corps; 25

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‘‘(2) coordinate and oversee planning and pro-1

gramming activities of the Department of Defense 2

and the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps; 3

‘‘(3) establish policies and guidance, in coordi-4

nation with the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine 5

Corps, regarding installation assets and services that 6

are required to support defense missions. 7

‘‘(b) The Assistant Secretary may communicate views 8

on issues within the responsibility of the Assistant Sec-9

retary directly to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy 10

Secretary of Defense without obtaining the approval or 11

concurrence of any other official within the Department 12

of Defense.’’. 13

(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-14

tions for chapter 4 of such title is amended by in-15

serting after the item relating to section 138c the 16

following new item:17

‘‘138e. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment.’’.

(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—18

(1) IN GENERAL.—19

(A) Section 2701(k)(3) of title 10, United 20

States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Deputy 21

Under Secretary of Defense for Installations 22

and Environment’’ and inserting ‘‘Assistant 23

Secretary of Defense for Installations and Envi-24

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(B) Section 2885(a)(3) of such title is 1

amended by striking ‘‘Deputy Under Secretary 2

of Defense (Installations and Environment)’’ 3

and inserting ‘‘Assistant Secretary of Defense 4

for Installations and Environment’’. 5

(2) REFERENCES IN OTHER LAWS.—Any ref-6

erence in any law, regulation, document, or other 7

record of the United States to the Deputy Under 8

Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environ-9

ment shall be treated as referring to the Assistant 10

Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environ-11

ment. 12

(d) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED.—No ad-13

ditional funds are authorized by this Act to accomplish 14

the mission of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for In-15

stallations and Environment. Such mission shall be carried 16

out using amounts otherwise authorized or appropriated. 17

(e) RESTRICTION ON PERSONNEL.—The number of 18

positions for military and civilian personnel and the num-19

ber of full-time equivalent positions for contractor per-20

sonnel associated with the office of the Assistant Secretary 21

of Defense for Installations and Environment shall not ex-22

ceed the number of such positions that were associated 23

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tions and Environment as of the date of the enactment 1

of this Act. 2

(f) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section or the 3

amendments made by this section shall be construed as 4

exempting the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense 5

for Installations and Environment from further reductions 6

as part of headquarters efficiencies initiatives of the De-7

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SEC. 905 [Log 53688]. REQUIREMENT FOR CONGRESSIONAL 1

BRIEFING BEFORE DIVESTING OF DEFENSE 2

FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SERVICE FUNC-3

TIONS. 4

No plan may be implemented by the Secretary of De-5

fense, the Secretary of a military department, the Director 6

of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, or any 7

other person to transfer financial management, bill pay-8

ing, or accounting services functions from the Defense Fi-9

nance and Accounting Service to another entity until the 10

Secretary of Defense provides the congressional defense 11

committees a briefing on the plan and the Secretary cer-12

tifies to such committees that the plan would reduce costs, 13

increase efficiencies, maintain the timeline for auditability 14

of financial statements, and maintain the roles and mis-15

sions of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.16


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SEC. 907 [Log 53744]. AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE EMPLOYEES 1

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND 2

MEMBERS OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, 3

AND MARINE CORPS TO OCCUPY QUARTERS 4

ON A RENTAL BASIS WHILE PERFORMING OF-5

FICIAL TRAVEL. 6

(a) DEFINITION.—Section 5911(a)(5) of title 5, 7

United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Government; 8

and’’ and inserting ‘‘Government or commercial lodging 9

arranged through a Government lodging program; and’’. 10

(b) AUTHORITY.—Section 5911(e) of title 5, United 11

States Code, is amended—12

(1) by striking ‘‘(e) The’’ and inserting ‘‘(e)(1) 13

Except as provided in paragraph (2), the’’; and 14

(2) by adding at the end the following: 15

‘‘(2)(A) The Secretary of Defense may require an em-16

ployee of the Department of Defense or a member of the 17

uniformed services under the Secretary’s jurisdiction per-18

forming duty on official travel to occupy adequate quarters 19

on a rental basis when available. 20

‘‘(B) A requirement under subparagraph (A) with re-21

spect to an employee of the Department of Defense may 22

not be construed to be subject to negotiation under chap-23

ter 71 or any other provision of this title.’’.24


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SEC. 908 [Log 53757]. SINGLE STANDARD MILEAGE REIM-1

BURSEMENT RATE FOR PRIVATELY OWNED 2

AUTOMOBILES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES 3

AND MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERV-4

ICES. 5

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5704(a)(1) of title 5, 6

United States Code, is amended in the last sentence by 7

striking all that follows: ‘‘the rate per mile’’ and inserting 8

‘‘shall be the single standard mileage rate established by 9

the Internal Revenue Service.’’. 10

(b) REGULATIONS AND REPORTS.—11

(1) PROVISIONS RELATING TO PRIVATELY 12

OWNED AIRPLANES AND MOTORCYCLES.—Paragraph 13

(1)(A) of section 5707(b) of title 5, United States 14

Code, is amended to read as follows: 15

‘‘(1)(A) The Administrator of General Services 16

shall conduct periodic investigations of the cost of 17

travel and the operation of privately owned airplanes 18

and privately owned motorcycles by employees while 19

engaged on official business, and shall report the re-20

sults of such investigations to Congress at least once 21

a year.’’. 22

(2) PROVISIONS RELATING TO PRIVATELY 23

OWNED AUTOMOBILES.—Clause (i) of section 24

5707(b)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, is 25

amended to read as follows: 26


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‘‘(i) shall provide that the mileage reim-1

bursement rate for privately owned automobiles, 2

as provided in section 5704(a)(1), is the single 3

standard mileage rate established by the Inter-4

nal Revenue Service referred to in that section, 5

and’’.6


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Subtitle B—Total Force 1

Management 2

SEC. 911 [Log 53692]. MODIFICATIONS TO BIENNIAL STRA-3

TEGIC WORKFORCE PLAN RELATING TO SEN-4

IOR MANAGEMENT, FUNCTIONAL, AND TECH-5

NICAL WORKFORCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 6

DEFENSE. 7

(a) SENIOR MANAGEMENT WORKFORCE.—Sub-8

section (c) of section 115b of title 10, United States Code, 9

is amended—10

(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 11

following: 12

‘‘(1) Each strategic workforce plan under subsection 13

(a) shall—14

‘‘(A) include a separate chapter to specifically 15

address the shaping and improvement of the senior 16

management workforce of the Department of De-17

fense; and 18

‘‘(B) include an assessment of the senior func-19

tional and technical workforce of the Department of 20

Defense within the appropriate functional commu-21

nity.’’; and 22

(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘such senior 23

management, functional, and technical workforce’’ 24


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and inserting ‘‘such senior management workforce 1

and such senior functional and technical workforce’’. 2

(b) HIGHLY QUALIFIED EXPERTS.—Such section is 3

further amended—4

(1) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘subsection 5

(f)(1)’’ in subparagraphs (D) and (E) and inserting 6

‘‘subsection (h)(1) or (h)(2)’’; 7

(2) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 8

subsections (g) and (h), respectively; and 9

(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-10

lowing new subsection (f): 11

‘‘(f) HIGHLY QUALIFIED EXPERTS.—12

‘‘(1) Each strategic workforce plan under sub-13

section (a) shall include an assessment of the work-14

force of the Department of Defense comprised of 15

highly qualified experts appointed pursuant to sec-16

tion 9903 of title 5 (in this subsection referred to as 17

the ‘HQE workforce’). 18

‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), each plan 19

shall include, with respect to the HQE workforce—20

‘‘(A) an assessment of the critical skills 21

and competencies of the existing HQE work-22

force and projected trends in that workforce 23

based on expected losses due to retirement and 24

other attrition; 25


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‘‘(B) specific strategies for attracting, com-1

pensating, and motivating the HQE workforce 2

of the Department, including the program ob-3

jectives of the Department to be achieved 4

through such strategies and the funding needed 5

to implement such strategies; 6

‘‘(C) any incentives necessary to attract or 7

retain HQE personnel; 8

‘‘(D) any changes that may be necessary in 9

resources or in the rates or methods of pay 10

needed to ensure the Department has full ac-11

cess to appropriately qualified personnel; and 12

‘‘(E) any legislative changes that may be 13

necessary to achieve HQE workforce goals.’’. 14

(c) DEFINITIONS.—Subsection (h) of such section (as 15

redesignated by subsection (b)(2)) is amended to read as 16

follows: 17

‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 18

‘‘(1) The term ‘senior management workforce of 19

the Department of Defense’ includes the following 20

categories of Department of Defense civilian per-21

sonnel: 22

‘‘(A) Appointees in the Senior Executive 23

Service under section 3131 of title 5. 24


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‘‘(B) Persons serving in the Defense Intel-1

ligence Senior Executive Service under section 2

1606 of this title. 3

‘‘(2) The term ‘senior functional and technical 4

workforce of the Department of Defense’ includes 5

the following categories of Department of Defense 6

civilian personnel: 7

‘‘(A) Persons serving in positions described 8

in section 5376(a) of title 5. 9

‘‘(B) Scientists and engineers appointed 10

pursuant to section 342(b) of the National De-11

fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 12

(Public Law 103–337; 108 Stat. 2721), as 13

amended by section 1114 of the Floyd D. 14

Spence National Defense Authorization Act for 15

Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by Public 16

Law 106–398 (114 Stat. 1654A-315)). 17

‘‘(C) Scientists and engineers appointed 18

pursuant to section 1101 of the Strom Thur-19

mond National Defense Authorization Act for 20

Fiscal Year 1999 (5 U.S.C. 3104 note). 21

‘‘(D) Persons serving in Intelligence Senior 22

Level positions under section 1607 of this title. 23


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‘‘(3) The term ‘acquisition workforce’ includes 1

individuals designated under section 1721 of this 2

title as filling acquisition positions.’’. 3

(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The heading of 4

subsection (c) of such section is amended to read as fol-5

lows: ‘‘SENIOR MANAGEMENT WORKFORCE; SENIOR 6

FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKFORCE.—’’.7


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SEC. 1042 [Log 53742]. AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT VOLUNTARY 1

SERVICES OF LAW STUDENTS AND PERSONS 2

STUDYING TO BE PARALEGALS. 3

Section 1588(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 4

amended by adding at the end the following new para-5

graph: 6

‘‘(10) Internship or externship services provided 7

by law students or persons studying to be a para-8

legal, when such services are provided under the di-9

rect supervision of an attorney.’’.10

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SEC. 1043 [Log 53696]. EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY FOR SEC-1

RETARY OF DEFENSE TO USE THE DEPART-2

MENT OF DEFENSE REIMBURSEMENT RATE 3

FOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES PROVIDED 4

TO CERTAIN NON-DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 5

ENTITIES. 6

(a) ELIGIBLE CATEGORIES OF TRANSPORTATION.—7

Subsection (a) of section 2642 of title 10, United States 8

Code, is amended—9

(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 10

striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to 11

subsection (b), the Secretary’’; 12

(2) in paragraph (3)—13

(A) by striking ‘‘During the period begin-14

ning on October 28, 2009, and ending on Sep-15

tember 30, 2019, for’’ and inserting ‘‘For’’; 16

(B) by striking ‘‘of Defense’’ the first place 17

it appears and all that follows through ‘‘mili-18

tary sales’’ and inserting ‘‘of Defense’’; and 19

(C) by striking ‘‘, but only if’’ and all that 20

follows through ‘‘commercial transportation in-21

dustry’’; and 22

(3) by adding at the end the following new 23

paragraphs: 24

‘‘(4) For military transportation services pro-25

vided in support of foreign military sales. 26



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vided to a State, local, or tribal agency (including 2

any organization composed of State, local, or tribal 3

agencies). 4


vided to a Department of Defense contractor when 6

transporting supplies that are for, or destined for, a 7

Department of Defense entity.’’. 8

(b) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN 9

CATEGORIES OF TRANSPORTATION.—Such section is fur-10

ther amended—11

(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-12

section (c); and 13

(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-14

lowing new subsection (b): 15

‘‘(b) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN 16

CATEGORIES OF TRANSPORTATION.—The provisions of 17

paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (6) of subsection (a) shall 18

apply only to military transportation services provided be-19

fore October 1, 2024.’’. 20

(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—21

(1) SECTION HEADING.—The heading of such 22

section is amended to read as follows: 23



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‘‘§ 2642. Transportation services provided to certain 1

non-Department of Defense agencies and 2

entities: Use of Department of Defense re-3

imbursement rate’’. 4

(2) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The item relating to 5

such section in the table of sections at the beginning 6

of chapter 157 of such title is amended to read as 7

follows:8

‘‘2642. Transportation services provided to certain non-Department of Defense

agencies and entities: Use of Department of Defense reim-

bursement rate.’’.



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SEC. 1044 [Log 53735]. REPEAL OF AUTHORITY RELATING TO 1

USE OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS BY CIVIL 2

RESERVE AIR FLEET CONTRACTORS. 3

(a) REPEAL.—Section 9513 of title 10, United States 4

Code, is repealed. 5

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 6

at the beginning of chapter 931 of such title is amended 7

by striking the item relating to section 9513.8



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SEC. 1047 [Log 53960]. LIMITATION ON USE OF RUSSIAN-1

FLAGGED AIRLIFT AIRCRAFT TO SUPPORT 2

THE AIRLIFT MOVEMENT REQUIREMENTS OF 3

THE UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COM-4

MAND. 5

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by 6

this Act or otherwise made available to the Secretary of 7

Defense for fiscal year 2015 may be used to fly any Rus-8

sian-flagged airlift aircraft to support any airlift move-9

ment requirement of the United States Transportation 10

Command until the commander of the United States 11

Transportation Command certifies to the Committees on 12

Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representa-13

tives that with respect to the airlift movement require-14

ment, using the Russian-flagged airlift aircraft is the only 15

means available to the commander to execute the require-16

ment.17



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SEC. 1101 [Log 53272]. ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF AUTHOR-1

ITY TO WAIVE ANNUAL LIMITATION ON PRE-2

MIUM PAY AND AGGREGATE LIMITATION ON 3

PAY FOR FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES 4

WORKING OVERSEAS. 5

Effective January 1, 2015, section 1101(a) of the 6

Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for 7

Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 4615), 8

as most recently amended by section 1101 of the National 9

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public 10

Law 113–66), is further amended by striking ‘‘through 11

2014’’ and inserting ‘‘through 2015’’.12

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SEC. 1102 [Log 53273]. ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF DISCRE-1

TIONARY AUTHORITY TO GRANT ALLOW-2

ANCES, BENEFITS, AND GRATUITIES TO PER-3

SONNEL ON OFFICIAL DUTY IN A COMBAT 4

ZONE. 5

Paragraph (2) of section 1603(a) of the Emergency 6

Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global 7

War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public 8

Law 109–234; 120 Stat. 443), as added by section 1102 9

of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization 10

Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 11

4616) and most recently amended by section 1102 of the 12

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 13

(Public Law 113–66), is further amended by striking 14

‘‘2015’’ and inserting ‘‘2016’’.15


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SEC. 1103 [Log 53583]. REVISION TO LIST OF SCIENCE AND 1

TECHNOLOGY REINVENTION LABORATORIES. 2

Section 1105(a) of the National Defense Authoriza-3

tion Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 4

Stat. 2487; 10 U.S.C. 2358 note) is amended by adding 5

at the end the following: 6

‘‘(18) The Army Research Institute for the Be-7

havioral and Social Sciences. 8

‘‘(19) The Space and Missile Defense Command 9

Technical Center.’’.10


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SEC. 1104 [Log 53582]. PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR EXPER-1

IMENTAL PERSONNEL PROGRAM FOR SCI-2

ENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL. 3

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1101 of the Strom Thur-4

mond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 5

1999 (Public Law 105–261; 5 U.S.C. 3104 note) is 6

amended by striking subsections (e), (f) and (g). 7

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Such section is 8

further amended—9

(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘EXPER-10

IMENTAL’’ and inserting ‘‘ALTERNATIVE’’; 11

(2) in subsection (a)—12

(A) by striking ‘‘During the program pe-13

riod specified in subsection (e)(1), the’’ and in-14

serting ‘‘The’’; and 15

(B) by striking ‘‘experimental’’; and 16

(3) in subsection (d)(1)—17

(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 18

(A), by striking ‘‘12-month period’’ and insert-19

ing ‘‘calendar year’’; and 20

(B) in subparagraph (A), striking ‘‘fiscal 21

year’’ and inserting ‘‘calendar year’’.22


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SEC. 1105 [Log 53540]. TEMPORARY AUTHORITIES FOR CER-1

TAIN POSITIONS AT DEPARTMENT OF DE-2

FENSE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING FA-3

CILITIES. 4

Section 1107 of the National Defense Authorization 5

Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–66) is amend-6

ed—7

(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 8

following: 9

‘‘(3) STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SCIENTIFIC AND 10

ENGINEERING PROGRAMS.—The director of any 11

STRL may appoint qualified candidates enrolled in 12

a program of undergraduate or graduate instruction 13

leading to a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a sci-14

entific, technical, engineering or mathematical 15

course of study at an institution of higher education 16

(as that term is defined in section 101 and 102 of 17

the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 18

1001)) to positions described in paragraph (3) of 19

subsection (b) as an employee in a laboratory de-20

scribed in that paragraph without regard to the pro-21

visions of subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, 22

United States Code (other than sections 3303 and 23

3328 of such title).’’; 24

(2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 25

following: 26


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‘‘(3) CANDIDATES ENROLLED IN SCIENTIFIC 1

AND ENGINEERING PROGRAMS.—The positions de-2

scribed in this paragraph are scientific and engineer-3

ing positions that may be temporary or term in any 4

laboratory designated by section 1105(a) of the Na-5

tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 6

2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 2486; 10 7

U.S.C. 2358 note) as a Department of Defense 8

science and technology reinvention laboratory.’’; and 9

(3) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 10

following: 11

‘‘(3) In the case of a laboratory described in 12

subsection (b)(3), with respect to appointment au-13

thority under subsection (a)(3), the number equal to 14

5 percent of the total number of scientific and engi-15

neering positions in such laboratory that are filled as 16

of the close of the fiscal year last ending before the 17

start of such calendar year.’’.18


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DIVISION B—MILITARY CON-1

STRUCTION AUTHORIZA-2

TIONS 3

SEC. 2001 øLOG 53105¿. SHORT TITLE. 4

This division may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construc-5

tion Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015’’.6

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SEC. 2002 [LOG 53106]. EXPIRATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS 1

AND AMOUNTS REQUIRED TO BE SPECIFIED 2

BY LAW. 3

(a) EXPIRATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS AFTER THREE 4

YEARS.—Except as provided in subsection (b), all author-5

izations contained in titles XXI through XXVII for mili-6

tary construction projects, land acquisition, family housing 7

projects and facilities, and contributions to the North At-8

lantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program 9

(and authorizations of appropriations therefor) shall ex-10

pire on the later of—11

(1) October 1, 2017; or 12

(2) the date of the enactment of an Act author-13

izing funds for military construction for fiscal year 14

2018. 15

(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 16

authorizations for military construction projects, land ac-17

quisition, family housing projects and facilities, and con-18

tributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Se-19

curity Investment Program (and authorizations of appro-20

priations therefor), for which appropriated funds have 21

been obligated before the later of—22

(1) October 1, 2017; or 23

(2) the date of the enactment of an Act author-24

izing funds for fiscal year 2018 for military con-25

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projects and facilities, or contributions to the North 1

Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment 2

Program.3



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SEC. 2003 [Log 53107]. EFFECTIVE DATE. 1

Titles XXI through XXVII shall take effect on the 2

later of—3

(1) October 1, 2014; or 4

(2) the date of the enactment of this Act.5



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SEC. 2101 øLog 53108¿. AUTHORIZED ARMY CONSTRUCTION 1

AND LAND ACQUISITION PROJECTS. 2

(a) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.—Using amounts 3

appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropria-4

tions in section 2103 and available for military construc-5

tion projects inside the United States as specified in the 6

funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Army 7

may acquire real property and carry out military construc-8

tion projects for the installations or locations inside the 9

United States, and in the amounts, set forth in the fol-10

lowing table:11Army: Inside the United States

State Installation or Location Amount

California ....................... Concord .................................................................. $15,200,000

Fort Irwin .............................................................. $45,000,000

Colorado ......................... Fort Carson ........................................................... $89,000,000

Hawaii ............................ Fort Shafter .......................................................... $83,000,000

Kentucky ........................ Blue Grass Army Depot ........................................ $15,000,000

Fort Campbell ....................................................... $23,000,000

New York ....................... Fort Drum ............................................................. $27,000,000

Pennsylvania .................. Letterkenny Army Depot ...................................... $16,000,000

South Carolina ............... Fort Jackson ......................................................... $52,000,000

Texas .............................. Fort Hood .............................................................. $46,000,000

Virginia .......................... Fort Lee ................................................................ $86,000,000

Joint Base Langley-Eustis .................................... $7,700,000

(b) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.—Using amounts 12



tion projects outside the United States as specified in the 15

funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Army 16

may acquire real property and carry out the military con-17

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the United States, and in the amount, set forth in the 1

following table:2Army: Outside the United States

Country Installation or Location Amount

Guantanamo Bay ............ Guantanamo Bay .................................................... $23,800,000

Japan .............................. Kadena Air Base .................................................... $10,600,000



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SEC. 2102 [Log 53109]. FAMILY HOUSING. 1

(a) CONSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION.—Using 2

amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of ap-3

propriations in section 2103 and available for military 4

family housing functions as specified in the funding table 5

in section 4601, the Secretary of the Army may construct 6

or acquire family housing units (including land acquisition 7

and supporting facilities) at the installations or locations, 8

in the number of units, and in the amounts set forth in 9

the following table:10

Army: Family Housing

State/Country Installation Units Amount

Illinois ...................... Rock Island .............. Family Housing New

Construction ........ $19,500,000

Korea ....................... Camp Walker ........... Family Housing New

Construction ........ $57,800,000

(b) PLANNING AND DESIGN.—Using amounts appro-11

priated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in 12

section 2103 and available for military family housing 13

functions as specified in the funding table in section 4601, 14

the Secretary of the Army may carry out architectural and 15

engineering services and construction design activities 16

with respect to the construction or improvement of family 17

housing units in an amount not to exceed $1,309,000.18



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SEC. 2103 [Log 53110]. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-1

TIONS, ARMY. 2

(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Funds 3

are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 4

beginning after September 30, 2014, for military con-5

struction, land acquisition, and military family housing 6

functions of the Department of the Army as specified in 7

the funding table in section 4601. 8

(b) LIMITATION ON TOTAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION 9

PROJECTS.—Notwithstanding the cost variations author-10

ized by section 2853 of title 10, United States Code, and 11

any other cost variation authorized by law, the total cost 12

of all projects carried out under section 2101 of this Act 13

may not exceed the total amount authorized to be appro-14

priated under subsection (a), as specified in the funding 15

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SEC. 2104 [Log 53655]. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO 1

CARRY OUT CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 2004 2

PROJECT. 3

In the case of the authorization contained in the table 4

in section 2101(a) of the Military Construction Authoriza-5

tion Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (division B of Public Law 6

108–136; 117 Stat. 1697) for Picatinny Arsenal, New 7

Jersey, for construction of an Explosives Research and 8

Development Loading Facility at the installation, the Sec-9

retary of the Army may use available unobligated balances 10

of amounts appropriated for military construction for the 11

Army to complete work on the project within the scope 12

specified for the project in the justification data provided 13

to Congress as part of the request for authorization of 14

the project.15



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PROJECTS. 3

(a) FORT DRUM.—In the case of the authorization 4

contained in the table in section 2101(a) of the Military 5

Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (di-6

vision B of Public Law 112–239; 126 Stat. 2119) for Fort 7

Drum, New York, for construction of an Aircraft Mainte-8

nance Hangar at the installation, the Secretary of the 9

Army may provide a capital contribution to a public or 10

private utility company in order for the utility company 11

to extend the utility company’s gas line to the installation 12

boundary. Such capital contribution is not a change in the 13

scope of work of the project under section 2853 of title 14

10, United States Code. 15

(b) FORT LEONARD WOOD.—In the case of the au-16

thorization contained in the table in section 2101(a) of 17

the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 18

Year 2013 (division B of Public Law 112–239; 126 Stat. 19

2119) for Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, for construction 20

of Battalion Complex Facilities at the installation, the 21

Secretary of the Army may construct the Battalion Head-22

quarters with classrooms for a unit other than a Global 23

Defense Posture Realignment unit. 24

(c) FORT MCNAIR.—In the case of the authorization 25




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vision B of Public Law 112–239; 126 Stat. 2119) for Fort 2

McNair, District of Columbia, for construction of a Vehi-3

cle Storage Building at the installation, the Secretary of 4

the Army may construct up to 20,227 square feet of vehi-5

cle storage. 6

(d) FORT BELVOIR.—The table in section 2101(a) of 7



2119) is amended in the item relating to Fort Belvoir, 10

Virginia, by striking ‘‘$94,000,000’’ in the amount column 11

and inserting ‘‘$183,000,000’’.12



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SEC. 2106 [Log 53657]. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF 1

CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 2011 PROJECT. 2

(a) EXTENSION.—Notwithstanding section 2002 of 3



4436), the authorization set forth in the table in sub-6

section (b), as provided in section 2101 of that Act (124 7

Stat. 4437) and extended by section 2109 of the Military 8


vision B of Public Law 113–66; 127 Stat. 988), shall re-10

main in effect until October 1, 2015, or the date of the 11

enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military con-12

struction for fiscal year 2016, whichever is later: 13

(b) TABLE.—The table referred to in subsection (a) 14

is as follows:15

Army: Extension of 2011 Project Authorization

State Installation or Lo-

cation Project Amount

Georgia ..................... Fort Benning .......... Land Acquisition .... $12,200,000



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SEC. 2107 [Log 53658]. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATIONS OF 1

CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 2012 PROJECTS. 2




1660), the authorizations set forth in the table in sub-6


Stat. 1661), shall remain in effect until October 1, 2015, 8

or the date of the enactment of an Act authorizing funds 9

for military construction for fiscal year 2016, whichever 10

is later: 11


as follows:13

Army: Extension of 2012 Project Authorizations



Georgia .................... Fort Benning ........... Land Acquisition ..... $5,100,000

Fort Benning ........... Land Acquisition ..... $25,000,000

North Carolina ........ Fort Bragg .............. Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle Mainte-

nance Hanger.

$54,000,000

Texas ....................... Fort Bliss ................ Applied Instruction

Building.

$8,300,000

Fort Bliss ................ Vehicle Maintenance

Facility.

$19,000,000

Fort Hood ................ Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle Mainte-

nance Hanger.

$47,000,000

Virginia .................... Fort Belvoir ............. Road and Infrastruc-

ture Improvements.

$25,000,000



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SEC. 2201 [Log 53111]. AUTHORIZED NAVY CONSTRUCTION 1






funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Navy 7




lowing table:11Navy: Inside the United States


Arizona .......................... Yuma ........................................................................ $16,608,000

California ....................... Bridgeport ................................................................ $16,180,000

San Diego ................................................................ $47,110,000

District of Columbia ...... Naval Support Activity ............................................ $31,735,000

Florida ........................... Jacksonville .............................................................. $30,235,000

Mayport .................................................................... $20,520,000

Guam ............................. Joint Region Marianas ............................................ $50,651,000

Hawaii ........................... Kaneohe Bay ............................................................ $53,382,000

Pearl Harbor ............................................................ $9,698,000

Maryland ........................ Annanpolis ............................................................... $120,112,000

Indian Head ............................................................. $15,346,000

Patuxent River ......................................................... $9,860,000

Nevada ........................... Fallon ....................................................................... $31,262,000

North Carolina .............. Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station .................. $41,588,000

Pennsylvania .................. Philadelphia ............................................................. $23,985,000

South Carolina ............... Charleston ................................................................ $35,716,000

Virginia .......................... Dahlgren .................................................................. $27,313,000

Norfolk ..................................................................... $39,274,000

Portsmouth .............................................................. $9,743,000

Quantico ................................................................... $12,613,000

Yorktown .................................................................. $26,988,000

Washington .................... Bremerton ................................................................ $16,401,000

Port Angeles ............................................................ $20,638,000

Whidbey Island ........................................................ $24,390,000




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funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Navy 2


tion projects for the installation or location outside the 4


lowing table:6Navy: Outside the United States


Bahrain ............................ South West Asia ...................................................... $27,826,000

Djibouti ............................ Camp Lemonier ....................................................... $9,923,000

Japan ............................... Iwakuni .................................................................... $6,415,000

Kadena Air Base ...................................................... $19,411,000

Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ........................ $4,639,000

Okinawa ................................................................... $35,685,000

(c) UNSPECIFIED WORLDWIDE.—Using amounts ap-7

propriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 8

in section 2204 and available for military construction 9

projects at unspecified worldwide locations as specified in 10

the funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the 11

Navy may acquire real property and carry out military 12

construction projects for unspecified locations, and in the 13

amount, set forth in the following table:14Navy: Unspecified Worldwide Locations

Country Location Amount

Unspecified Worldwide

Locations ..................... Unspecified Worldwide Locations ............................ $38,985,000



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SEC. 2202 [Log 53112]. FAMILY HOUSING. 1

Using amounts appropriated pursuant to the author-2

ization of appropriations in section 2204 and available for 3

military family housing functions as specified in the fund-4

ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Navy may 5

carry out architectural and engineering services and con-6

struction design activities with respect to the construction 7

or improvement of family housing units in an amount not 8

to exceed $472,000.9



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SEC. 2203 [Log 53113]. IMPROVEMENTS TO MILITARY FAM-1

ILY HOUSING UNITS. 2

Subject to section 2825 of title 10, United States 3

Code, and using amounts appropriated pursuant to the 4

authorization of appropriations in section 2204 and avail-5

able for military family housing functions as specified in 6

the funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the 7

Navy may improve existing military family housing units 8

in an amount not to exceed $15,940,000.9



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SEC. 2204 [LOG 53114]. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-1

TIONS, NAVY. 2





functions of the Department of the Navy, as specified in 7

the funding table in section 4601. 8











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PROJECTS. 3

(a) YUMA.—In the case of the authorization con-4

tained in the table in section 2201(a) of the Military Con-5

struction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (division 6

B of Public Law 112–81; 125 Stat. 1666), for Yuma, Ari-7

zona, for construction of a Double Aircraft Maintenance 8

Hangar, the Secretary of the Navy may construct up to 9

approximately 70,000 square feet of additional apron to 10

be utilized as a taxi-lane using amounts appropriated for 11

this project pursuant to the authorization of appropria-12

tions in section 2204 of such Act (125 Stat. 1667). 13

(b) CAMP PENDELTON.—In the case of the author-14

ization contained in the table in section 2201(a) of the 15

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 16

2012 (division B of Public Law 112–81; 125 Stat. 1666), 17

for Camp Pendelton, California, for construction of an In-18

fantry Squad Defense Range, the Secretary of the Navy 19

may construct up to 9,000 square feet of vehicular bridge 20

using amounts appropriated for this project pursuant to 21

the authorization of appropriations in section 2204 of such 22

Act (125 Stat. 1667). 23

(c) KINGS BAY.—In the case of the authorization 24





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vision B of Public Law 112–81; 125 Stat. 1666), for 1

Kings Bay, Georgia, for construction of a Crab Island Se-2

curity Enclave, the Secretary of the Navy may expand the 3

enclave fencing system to three layers of fencing and con-4

struct two elevated fixed fighting positions with associated 5

supporting facilities using amounts appropriated for this 6

project pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in 7

section 2204 of such Act (125 Stat. 1667).8



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PROJECT. 3




113–66; 127 Stat. 989), for Yorktown, Virginia, for con-7

struction of Small Arms Ranges, the Secretary of the 8

Navy may construct 240 square meters of armory, 48 9

square meters of Safety Officer/Target Storage Building, 10

and 667 square meters of Range Operations Building 11

using appropriations available for the project pursuant to 12

the authorization of appropriations in section 2204 of such 13

Act (127 Stat. 990).14



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main in effect until October 1, 2015, or the date of an 11

Act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal 12

year 2016, whichever is later. 13


is as follows:15

Navy: Extension of 2011 Project Authorizations

State/Country Installation or Lo-


Bahrain .................... South West Asia ...... Navy Central Com-

mand Ammunition

Magazines.

$89,280,000

Guam ....................... Naval Activities,

Guam.

Defense Access

Roads Improve-

ments.

$66,730,000



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or the date of an Act authorizing funds for military con-9

struction for fiscal year 2016, whichever is later. 10


is as follows:12

Navy: Extension of 2012 Project Authorizations



California ................. Camp Pendelton ...... North Area Waste

Water Conveyance $78,271,000

Camp Pendelton ...... Infantry Squad De-

fense Range ......... $29,187,000

Twentynine Palms ... Land Expansion ...... $8,665,000

Florida ..................... Jacksonville .............. P–8A Hangar Up-

grades .................. $6,085,000

Georgia .................... Kings Bay ................ Crab Island Security

Enclave ................ $52,913,000

Kings Bay ................ WRA Land/Water

Interface .............. $33,150,000

Maryland .................. Patuxent River ........ Aircraft Prototype

Facility Phase 2 ... $45,844,000



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SEC. 2301 [Log 53115]. AUTHORIZED AIR FORCE CONSTRUC-1

TION AND LAND ACQUISITION PROJECTS. 2





funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Air 7

Force may acquire real property and carry out military 8

construction projects for the installations or locations in-9

side the United States, and in the amounts, set forth in 10

the following table:11Air Force: Inside the United States


Alaska ........................................... Clear Air Force Base ............................ $11,500,000

Arizona ......................................... Luke Air Force Base ............................ $26,800,000

Guam ............................................ Joint Region Marianas ......................... $13,400,000

Kansas .......................................... McConnell Air Force Base .................... $34,400,000

Massachusetts ............................... Hanscom Air Force Base ...................... $13,500,000

Nevada .......................................... Nellis Air Force Base ........................... $53,900,000

New Jersey ................................... Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst ..... $5,900,000

Oklahoma ...................................... Tinker Air Force Base .......................... $111,000,000

Texas ............................................ Joint Base San Antonio ........................ $5,800,000





funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Air 16

Force may acquire real property and carry out military 17

construction projects for the installation outside the 18

United States, and in the amount, set forth in the fol-19

lowing table:20



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Air Force: Outside the United States

Country Installation Amount

United Kingdom ............... Croughton Royal Air Force Base ......... $92,223,000



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4


TIONS, AIR FORCE. 2




struction and land acquisition functions of the Depart-6

ment of the Air Force, as specified in the funding table 7

in section 4601. 8











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PROJECT. 3




110–181; 122 Stat. 515), for Shaw Air Force Base, South 7

Carolina, for base infrastructure at that location, the Sec-8

retary of the Air Force may acquire fee or lesser real prop-9

erty interests in approximately 11.5 acres of land contig-10

uous to Shaw Air Force Base for the project using funds 11

appropriated to the Department of the Air Force for con-12

struction in years prior to fiscal year 2015.13



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main in effect until October 1, 2015, or the date of the 11




is as follows:15

Air Force: Extension of 2011 Project Authorization

Country Installation or Lo-


Bahrain .................... Shaikh Isa Air Base North Apron Expan-

sion.

$45,000,000.



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is later. 11


is as follows:13

Air Force: Extension of 2012 Project Authorizations



Alaska ...................... Eielson AFB ............ Dormitory (168 RM) $45,000,000

Italy ......................... Sigonella Naval Air

Station ................. UAS SATCOM

Relay Pads and

Facility ................. $15,000,000



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Subtitle A—Defense Agency 1

Authorizations 2

SEC. 2401 [Log 53119]. AUTHORIZED DEFENSE AGENCIES 3

CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION 4

PROJECTS. 5





funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of Defense 10




lowing table:14Defense Agencies: Inside the United States


Arizona ....................................... Fort Huachuca ........................................ $1,871,000

California .................................... Camp Pendelton ...................................... $11,841,000

Coronado ................................................. $70, 340,000

Lemoore ................................................... $52,500,000

Colorado ..................................... Peterson Air Force Base ......................... $15,200,000

Georgia ....................................... Hunter Army Airfield .............................. $7,692,000

Robins Air Force Base ............................ $19,900,000

Hawaii ........................................ Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam ........... $52,900,000

Kentucky .................................... Fort Campbell ......................................... $18,000,000

Maryland .................................... Fort Meade .............................................. $54,207,000

Joint Base Andrews ................................ $18,300,000

Michigan ..................................... Selfridge Air National Guard Base ......... $35,100,000

Mississippi .................................. Stennis ..................................................... $27,547,000

Nevada ....................................... Fallon ...................................................... $20,241,000

New Mexico ................................ Cannon Air Force Base ........................... $23,333,000

North Carolina ........................... Camp Lejeune ......................................... $52,748,000

Fort Bragg .............................................. $93,136,000

Seymour Johnson AFB ........................... $8,500,000

South Carolina ........................... Beaufort .................................................. $40,600,000

South Dakota ............................. Ellsworth Air Force Base ....................... $8,000,000

Texas .......................................... Joint Base San Antonio .......................... $38,300,000

Virginia ...................................... Craney Island .......................................... $36,500,000

Defense Distribution Depot Richmond ... $5,700,000

Fort Belvoir ............................................. $7,239,000

Joint Base Langley-Eustis ...................... $41,200,000



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Defense Agencies: Inside the United States—Continued


Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-

Story .................................................... $39,588,000

Pentagon ................................................. $15,100,000

CONUS Classified ...................... Classified Location .................................. $53,073,000





funding table in section 4601, the Secretary of Defense 5


tion projects for the installations or locations outside the 7


lowing table:9Defense Agencies: Outside the United States


Australia ........................ Geraldton .............................................................. $9,600,000

Belgium ......................... Brussels ................................................................ $79,544,000

Guantanamo Bay .......... Guantanamo Bay ................................................. $76,290,000

Japan ............................ Misawa Air Base .................................................. $37,775,000

Okinawa ................................................................ $170,901,000

Sasebo ................................................................... $37,681,000



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4

SEC. 2402 [Log 53666]. AUTHORIZED ENERGY CONSERVA-1

TION PROJECTS. 2



tions in section 2403 and available for energy conservation 5

projects inside the United States as specified in the fund-6

ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of Defense may 7

carry out energy conservation projects under chapter 173 8

of title 10, United States Code, for the installations or 9

locations inside the United States, and in the amounts, 10

set forth in the following table:11

Energy Conservation Projects: Inside the United States


California ............................ Edwards Air Force Base .............. $4,500,000

Fort Hunter Liggett ..................... $13,500,000

Vandenberg Air Force Base .......... $7,197,000

Colorado .............................. Fort Carson ................................... $3,000,000

Florida ................................ Eglin Air Force Base .................... $3,850,000

Georgia ............................... Moody Air Force Base .................. $3,600,000

Hawaii ................................ Marine Corps Base Hawaii ........... $8,460,000

Illinois ................................. Great Lakes Naval Station ........... $2,190,000

Maine .................................. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard ......... $2,740,000

Maryland ............................. Fort Detrick .................................. $2,100,000

North Dakota ..................... Offutt Air Force Base ................... $2,869,000

Oklahoma ............................ Tinker Air Force Base .................. $3,609,000

Oregon ................................ Oregon City Armory ..................... $6,600,000

Utah .................................... Dugway Proving Ground .............. $15,400,000

Virginia ............................... Naval Station Norfolk ................... $11,360,000

Pentagon ....................................... $2,120,000

Various Locations ............... Various Locations ......................... $23,679,000



tions in section 2403 and available for energy conservation 14

projects outside the United States as specified in the fund-15

ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of Defense may 16

carry out energy conservation projects under chapter 173 17



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of title 10, United States Code, for the installations or 1

locations outside the United States, and in the amounts, 2

set forth in the following table:3

Energy Conservation Projects: Outside the United States


Diego Garcia ....................... Naval Support Facility ................. $14,620,000

Japan .................................. Fleet Activities Yokosuka ............. $8,030,000

Germany ............................. Spangdahlem ................................. $4,800,000

Various Locations ............... Various Locations ......................... $5,776,000



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TIONS, DEFENSE AGENCIES. 2





functions of the Department of Defense (other than the 7

military departments), as specified in the funding table 8

in section 4601. 9











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or the date of an Act authorizing funds for military con-9



is as follows:12

Defense Agencies: Extension of 2011 Project Authorizations



District of Columbia Bolling Air Force

Base ..................... Cooling Tower Ex-

pansion ................. $2,070,000

DIAC Parking Ga-

rage ...................... $13,586,000

Electrical Upgrades $1,080,000



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SEC. 2405 [Log 53668&53669]. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZA-1

TIONS OF CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 2012 2

PROJECTS. 3









is later. 12


is as follows:14

Defense Agencies: Extension of 2012 Project Authorizations



California ................. Coronado .................. SOF Support Activ-

ity Operations Fa-

cility ..................... $42,000,000

Germany .................. USAG Baumholder .. Wetzel-Smith Ele-

mentary School .... $59,419,000

Italy ......................... USAG Vicenza ......... Vicenza High School $41,864,000

Japan ....................... Yokota Air Base ...... Yokota High School $49,606,000

Virginia .................... Pentagon Reserva-

tion ....................... Heliport Control

Tower and Fire

Station ................. $6,457,000

Pedestrian Plaza ...... $2,285,000



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SEC. 2406 [Log 53727]. LIMITATION ON PROJECT AUTHOR-1

IZATION TO CARRY OUT CERTAIN FISCAL 2

YEAR 2015 PROJECTS PENDING SUBMISSION 3

OF REQUIRED REPORTS. 4

(a) LIMITATION.—No amounts may be obligated or 5

expended for the military construction projects described 6

in subsection (b) and otherwise authorized by section 7

2401(a) until both of the reports described in subsection 8

(c) have been submitted to the Committees on Armed 9

Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives. 10

(b) COVERED PROJECTS.—The limitation imposed by 11

subsection (a) applies to the following military construc-12

tion projects: 13

(1) The construction of a human performance 14

center facility at Joint Expeditionary Base Little 15

Creek–Story, Virginia. 16

(2) The construction of a squadron operations 17

facility at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. 18

(c) REPORTS DESCRIBED.—The reports referred to 19

in subsection (a) are—20

(1) the report on the United States Special Op-21

erations Command Preservation of the Force and 22

Families initiative requested under the heading 23

‘‘U.S. Special Operations Command Military Con-24

struction Requirements’’ in the Joint Explanatory 25

Statement to Accompany the National Defense Au-26



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thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, as printed in 1

the Congressional Record on December 12, 2013 2

(page H7956); and 3

(2) the report on the review of Department of 4

Defense efforts regarding the prevention of suicide 5

among members of United States Special Operations 6

Forces and their dependents required by section 581 7

of this Act.8



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Subtitle B—Chemical 1

Demilitarization Authorizations 2


TIONS, CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION CON-4

STRUCTION, DEFENSE-WIDE. 5




struction and land acquisition for chemical demilitariza-9

tion, as specified in the funding table in section 4601. 10





of all projects carried out under subsection (a) may not 15

exceed the total amount authorized to be appropriated 16

under subsection (a), as specified in the funding table in 17

section 4601.18



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PROJECT. 3

(a) MODIFICATION.—The table in section 2401(a) of 4



835), as amended by section 2405 of the Military Con-7


B of Public Law 107–107; 115 Stat. 1298), section 2405 9

of the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 10


2698), section 2414 of the Military Construction Author-12

ization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (division B of Public Law 13

110–417; 122 Stat. 4697), and section 2412 of the Mili-14

tary Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 15

(division B of Public Law 111–383; 124 Stat. 4450), is 16

amended—17

(1) in the item relating to Blue Grass Army 18

Depot, Kentucky, by striking ‘‘$746,000,000’’ in the 19

amount column and inserting ‘‘$780,000,000’’; and 20

(2) by striking the amount identified as the 21

total in the amount column and inserting 22

‘‘$1,237,920,000’’. 23

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 2405(b)(3) 24





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13

839), as amended by section 2405 of the Military Con-1


B of Public Law 107–107; 115 Stat. 1298), section 2405 3



2698), section 2414 of the Military Construction Author-6


110–417; 122 Stat. 4697), and section 2412 of the Mili-8


(division B of Public Law 111–383; 124 Stat. 4450), is 10

further amended by striking ‘‘$723,200,000’’ and insert-11

ing ‘‘$757,200,000’’.12



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SEC. 2501 [Log 53122]. AUTHORIZED NATO CONSTRUCTION 1


The Secretary of Defense may make contributions for 3

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Invest-4

ment Program as provided in section 2806 of title 10, 5

United States Code, in an amount not to exceed the sum 6

of the amount authorized to be appropriated for this pur-7

pose in section 2502 and the amount collected from the 8

North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a result of con-9

struction previously financed by the United States.10



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3


TIONS, NATO. 2

Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for 3

fiscal years beginning after September 30, 2014, for con-4

tributions by the Secretary of Defense under section 2806 5

of title 10, United States Code, for the share of the United 6

States of the cost of projects for the North Atlantic Treaty 7

Organization Security Investment Program authorized by 8

section 2501 as specified in the funding table in section 9

4601.10



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Subtitle A—Project Authorizations 1

and Authorization of Appropria-2

tions 3

SEC. 2601 [Log 53124]. AUTHORIZED ARMY NATIONAL 4

GUARD CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISI-5

TION PROJECTS. 6



the National Guard and Reserve as specified in the fund-9

ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Army may 10

acquire real property and carry out military construction 11

projects for the Army National Guard locations inside the 12


lowing table:14Army National Guard: Inside the United States

State Location Amount

Delaware ......................... Dagsboro ................................................................ $10,800,000

Maine ............................... Augusta .................................................................. $30,000,000

Maryland ......................... Havre De Grace ..................................................... $12,400,000

Montana .......................... Helena .................................................................... $38,000,000

New Mexico ..................... Alamogordo ............................................................. $5,000,000

North Dakota .................. Valley City .............................................................. $10,800,000

Vermont .......................... North Hyde Park ................................................... $4,400,000

Washington ..................... Yakima ................................................................... $19,000,000

SEC. 2602 [Log 53125]. AUTHORIZED ARMY RESERVE CON-15

STRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION 16

PROJECTS. 17






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ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Army may 1


projects for the Army Reserve locations inside the United 3

States, and in the amounts, set forth in the following 4

table:5Army Reserve


California ............................. Fresno ................................................................ $22,000,000

March Air Force Base ....................................... $25,000,000

Colorado ............................... Fort Carson ....................................................... $5,000,000

Illinois .................................. Arlington Heights .............................................. $26,000,000

Mississippi ............................ Starkville ............................................................ $9,300,000

New Jersey ........................... Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst .................. $26,000,000

New York ............................. Mattydale ........................................................... $23,000,000

Virginia ................................ Fort Lee ............................................................ $16,000,000

SEC. 2603 [Log 53127]. AUTHORIZED NAVY RESERVE AND 6

MARINE CORPS RESERVE CONSTRUCTION 7





ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Navy may 12


projects for the Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve 14

locations inside the United States, and in the amounts, 15

set forth in the following table:16Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve


Pennsylvania ......................... Pittsburgh ......................................................... $17,650,000

Washington ........................... Whidbey Island ................................................. $27,755,000



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SEC. 2604 [Log 53128]. AUTHORIZED AIR NATIONAL GUARD 1


PROJECTS. 3




ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Air Force 7


tion projects for the Air National Guard locations inside 9

the United States, and in the amounts, set forth in the 10

following table:11Air National Guard


Connecticut ............................ Bradley International Airport ......................... $16,306,000

Iowa ....................................... Des Moines Municipal Airport ........................ $8,993,000

Michigan ............................... W.K. Kellog Regional Airport ......................... $6,000,000

New Hampshire ..................... Pease International Trade Port ...................... $41,902,000

Pennsylvania .......................... Willow Grove Air Reserve Field ...................... $5,662,000

SEC. 2605 [Log 53129]. AUTHORIZED AIR FORCE RESERVE 12


PROJECTS. 14




ing table in section 4601, the Secretary of the Air Force 18


tion projects for the Air Force Reserve locations inside 20

the United States, and in the amounts, set forth in the 21

following table:22



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Air Force Reserve


Georgia .................................. Robins Air Force Base ..................................... $27,700,000

North Carolina ...................... Seymour Johnson Air Force Base .................... $9,800,000

Texas ..................................... Forth Worth ..................................................... $3,700,000


TIONS, NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE. 2


fiscal years beginning after September 30, 2014, for the 4

costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, 5

and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve 6

Forces, and for contributions therefor, under chapter 7

1803 of title 10, United States Code (including the cost 8

of acquisition of land for those facilities), as specified in 9

the funding table in section 4601.10



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Subtitle B—Other Matters 1

SEC. 2611 [Log 53671]. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF 2

AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT CERTAIN FISCAL 3

YEAR 2012 PROJECTS. 4

(a) MODIFICATION.—5

(1) KANSAS CITY.—In the case of the author-6

ization contained in the table in section 2602 of the 7

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 8

Year 2012 (division B of Public Law 112–81; 125 9

Stat. 1677), for Kansas City, Kansas, for construc-10

tion of an Army Reserve Center at that location, the 11

Secretary of the Army may construct a new facility 12

in the vicinity of Kansas City, Kansas, instead of 13

constructing a new facility in Kansas City. 14

(2) ATTLEBORO.—In the case of the authoriza-15

tion contained in the table in section 2602 of the 16

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 17

Year 2012 (division B of Public Law 112–81; 125 18

Stat. 1677), for Attleboro, Massachusetts, for con-19

struction of an Army Reserve Center at that loca-20

tion, the Secretary of the Army may construct a new 21

facility in the vicinity of Attleboro, Massachusetts, 22

instead of constructing a new facility in Attleboro, . 23

(b) EXTENSION.—Notwithstanding section 2002 of 24




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1660), the authorizations set forth in subsection (a) shall 2

remain in effect until October 1, 2018, or the date of the 3


struction for fiscal year 2019, whichever is later.5



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PROJECT. 3


in section 2601 of the Military Construction Authorization 5

Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (division B of Public Law 112–6

239; 126 Stat. 2133) for Stormville, New York, for con-7

struction of a Combined Support Maintenance Shop Phase 8

I, the Secretary of the Army may instead construct the 9

facility at Camp Smith, New York, and build a 53,760 10

square foot maintenance facility in lieu of a 75,156 square 11

foot maintenance facility.12



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vision B of Public Law 113–66; 127 Stat. 1003), shall 10

remain in effect until October 1, 2015, or the date of the 11




is a follows:15

Extension of 2011 National Guard and Reserve Project Authorization



Puerto Rico .............. Camp Santiago ......... Multipurpose Ma-

chine Gun Range .. $9,200,000



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Subtitle A—Authorization of 1

Appropriations 2


TIONS FOR BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLO-4

SURE ACTIVITIES FUNDED THROUGH DE-5

PARTMENT OF DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE AC-6

COUNT. 7


fiscal years beginning after September 30, 2014, for base 9

realignment and closure activities, including real property 10

acquisition and military construction projects, as author-11

ized by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act 12

of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 13

10 U.S.C. 2687 note) and funded through the Department 14

of Defense Base Closure Account established by section 15

2906 of such Act (as amended by section 2711 of the Mili-16


(division B of Public Law 112–239; 126 Stat. 2140)), as 18

specified in the funding table in section 4601.19



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Subtitle B—Prohibition on 1

Additional BRAC Round 2

SEC. 2711 [Log 53167]. PROHIBITION ON CONDUCTING ADDI-3

TIONAL BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE 4

(BRAC) ROUND. 5

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize 6

an additional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 7

round.8



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Subtitle C—Other Matters 1

SEC. 2721 [Log 53220]. FORCE-STRUCTURE PLANS AND IN-2

FRASTRUCTURE INVENTORY AND ASSESS-3

MENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE NECESSARY TO 4

SUPPORT THE FORCE STRUCTURE. 5

(a) PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF FORCE-6

STRUCTURE PLANS AND INFRASTRUCTURE INVEN-7

TORY.—As part of the budget justification documents sub-8

mitted to Congress in support of the budget for the De-9

partment of Defense for fiscal year 2016, the Secretary 10

of Defense shall include the following: 11

(1) Two force-structure plans for each of the 12

Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps for the 13

20-year period beginning with fiscal year 2016, in-14

cluding the probable end-strength levels and major 15

military force units (including land force divisions, 16

carrier and other major combatant vessels, air 17

wings, and other comparable units) needed to meet 18

anticipated threats, and the anticipated levels of 19

funding that will be available for national defense 20

purposes during such period. One force-structure 21

plan shall reflect the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Re-22

view and the other force-structure plan shall reflect 23

the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 24

Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.), as amended by 25



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title I of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public 1

Law 112–25) and section 101 of the Bipartisan 2

Budget Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–67). 3

(2) A comprehensive inventory of military in-4

stallations world-wide for each military department, 5

with specifications of the number and type of facili-6

ties in the active and reserve forces of each military 7

department. 8

(b) RELATIONSHIP OF PLANS AND INVENTORY.—9

Using the force-structure plans and infrastructure inven-10

tory prepared under subsection (a), the Secretary of De-11

fense shall prepare (and include as part of the submission 12

of such plans and inventory) the following: 13

(1) A description of the infrastructure nec-14

essary to support the force structure described in 15

each force-structure plan. 16

(2) A discussion of categories of excess infra-17

structure and infrastructure capacity, and the Sec-18

retary’s targets for the reduction of such excess ca-19

pacity. 20

(3) An assessment of the excess infrastructure 21

and the value of retaining certain excess infrastruc-22

ture to support surge or reversibility requirements. 23



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(4) An economic analysis of the effect of the 1

closure or realignment of military installations to re-2

duce excess infrastructure. 3

(c) SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS.—In determining the 4

level of necessary versus excess infrastructure under sub-5

section (b), the Secretary of Defense shall consider the fol-6

lowing: 7

(1) The anticipated continuing need for and 8

availability of military installations outside the 9

United States, taking into account current restric-10

tions on the use of military installations outside the 11

United States and the potential for future prohibi-12

tions or restrictions on the use of such military in-13

stallations. 14

(2) Any efficiencies that may be gained from 15

joint tenancy by more than one branch of the Armed 16

Forces at a military installation or the reorganiza-17

tion or association of two or more military installa-18

tions as a single military installation. 19

(d) CERTIFICATION OF NEED FOR FURTHER CLO-20

SURES AND REALIGNMENTS.—21

(1) CERTIFICATION REQUIRED.—On the basis 22

of the force-structure plans and infrastructure inven-23

tory prepared under subsection (a) and the descrip-24

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section (b), the Secretary of Defense shall include as 1

part of the submission of the plans and inventory a 2

certification regarding whether the need exists for 3

the closure or realignment of additional military in-4

stallations. 5

(2) ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATION.—As a condi-6

tion on the certification under paragraph (1) that 7

the need for an additional round of closures and re-8

alignments exists, the Secretary shall include an ad-9

ditional certification that every recommendation for 10

the closure or realignment of military installations in 11

the additional round of closures and realignments 12

will result in annual net savings for each of the mili-13

tary departments within six years after the initiation 14

of the additional round of closures and realignments. 15

(e) COMPTROLLER GENERAL EVALUATION.—16

(1) EVALUATION REQUIRED.—If the certifi-17

cations are provided under subsection (d), the Comp-18

troller General of the United States shall prepare an 19

evaluation of the following: 20

(A) The force-structure plans and infra-21

structure inventory prepared under subsection 22

(a), including an evaluation of the accuracy and 23

analytical sufficiency of the plans and inven-24

tory. 25



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(B) The need for the closure or realign-1

ment of additional military installations. 2

(2) SUBMISSION.—The Comptroller General 3

shall submit the evaluation to Congress not later 4

than 60 days after the date on which the force-5

structure plans and infrastructure inventory are sub-6

mitted to Congress.7



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SEC. 2722 [Log 53151]. MODIFICATION OF PROPERTY DIS-1

POSAL PROCEDURES UNDER BASE REALIGN-2

MENT AND CLOSURE PROCESS. 3

(a) REPORT ON EXCESS PROPERTY.—Section 2905 4

of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 5

(part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 6

2687 note) is amended by inserting after subsection (e) 7

the following new subsection: 8

‘‘(f) REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF PROPERTY AS EX-9

CESS INSTEAD OF SURPLUS.—(1) Not later than 180 days 10

after the date on which real property located at a military 11

installation closed or realigned under this part is declared 12

excess, but not surplus, the Secretary of Defense shall 13

submit to the congressional defense committees a report 14

identifying the property and including the information re-15

quired by paragraph (2). The Secretary shall update the 16

report every 180 days thereafter until the property is ei-17

ther declared surplus or transferred to another Federal 18

agency. 19

‘‘(2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall include 20

the following elements: 21

‘‘(A) The reason for the excess designation. 22

‘‘(B) The nature of the contemplated transfer. 23

‘‘(C) The proposed timeline for the transfer. 24

‘‘(D) Any impediments to completing the Fed-25

eral agency screening process.’’. 26



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(b) EFFECT OF LACK OF RECOGNIZED REDEVELOP-1

MENT AUTHORITY.—Section 2910(9) of the Defense Base 2

Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title 3

XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) is 4

amended—5

(1) by striking ‘‘The term’’ and inserting ‘‘(A) 6

The term’’; and 7

(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-8

paragraph: 9

‘‘(B) If no redevelopment authority referred to 10

in subparagraph (A) exists with respect to a military 11

installation, the term shall include the following: 12

‘‘(i) The local government in whose juris-13

diction the military installation is wholly lo-14

cated. 15

‘‘(ii) A local government agency or State 16

government agency designated by the chief ex-17

ecutive officer of the State in which the military 18

installation is located under subparagraph (B) 19

of section 2905(b)(3) for the purpose of the 20

consultation required by subparagraph (A) of 21

such section.’’.22



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SEC. 2723 [Log 53308]. FINAL SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS RE-1

GARDING CARETAKER AGREEMENT FOR 2

FORMER DEFENSE DEPOT OGDEN, UTAH. 3

(a) SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Subject to the condi-4

tion imposed by subsection (b), any claim by the United 5

States against the City of Ogden, Utah, and the Ogden 6

Local Redevelopment Authority (as the recognized redevel-7

opment authority for former Defense Depot Ogden, Utah, 8

which was closed pursuant to the Defense Base Closure 9

and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of 10

Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note)) related to 11

the terms or execution of the Caretaker Agreement origi-12

nally signed and dated September 10, 1997, between the 13

Department of the Army and the City of Ogden and the 14

Ogden Local Redevelopment Authority is hereby declared 15

to be settled, the City of Ogden and the Ogden Local Re-16

development Authority have no remaining financial obliga-17

tion to the United States arising from that agreement, and 18

the Defense Contract Management Agency shall cease any 19

collection efforts with respect to any such claim. 20

(b) CONDITION.—The operation of subsection (a) is 21

conditioned on release by the City of Ogden and the Ogden 22

Local Redevelopment Authority of any remaining financial 23

claim against the United States raising from the Care-24

taker Agreement described in subsection (a).25



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CARRY OUT UNSPECIFIED MINOR MILITARY 2

CONSTRUCTION. 3

(a) UNSPECIFIED MINOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 4

PROJECT DESCRIBED.—Subsection (a)(2) of section 2805 5

of title 10, United States Code, is amended—6

(1) in the first sentence, by striking 7

‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$3,000,000’’; and 8

(2) by striking the second sentence. 9

(b) INCREASED THRESHOLD FOR APPLICATION OF 10

SECRETORY APPROVAL AND CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICA-11

TION REQUIREMENTS.—Subsection (b)(1) of such section 12

is amended by striking ‘‘$750,000’’ and inserting 13

‘‘$1,000,000’’. 14

(c) MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF OPERATION AND MAINTE-15

NANCE FUNDS AUTHORIZED TO BE USED FOR 16

PROJECTS.—Subsection (c) of such section is amended by 17

striking ‘‘$750,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,000,000’’. 18

(d) ANNUAL LOCATION ADJUSTMENT OF DOLLAR 19

LIMITATIONS.—Such section is further amended by add-20

ing at the end the following new subsection: 21

‘‘(f) ADJUSTMENT OF DOLLAR LIMITATIONS FOR LO-22

CATION.—Each fiscal year, the Secretary concerned shall 23

adjust the dollar limitations specified in this section appli-24

cable to an unspecified minor military construction project 25

to reflect the area construction cost index for military con-26

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struction projects published by the Department of Defense 1

during the prior fiscal year for the location of the 2

project.’’.3



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SEC. 2803 [Log 53297]. USE OF ONE-STEP TURN-KEY CON-1

TRACTOR SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR AD-2

DITIONAL FACILITY PROJECTS. 3

Section 2862 of title 10, United States Code, is 4

amended to read as follows: 5

‘‘§ 2862. Turn-key selection procedures 6

‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FOR CERTAIN PUR-7

POSES.—The Secretary concerned may use one-step turn-8

key selection procedures for the purpose of entering into 9

a contract for any of the following purposes: 10

‘‘(1) The construction of an authorized military 11

construction project. 12

‘‘(2) A repair project (as defined in section 13

2811(e) of this title) with an approved cost equal to 14

or less than $4,000,000. 15

‘‘(3) The construction of a facility as part of an 16

authorized security assistance activity. 17

‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 18

‘‘(1) The term ‘one-step turn-key selection pro-19

cedures’ means procedures used for the selection of 20

a contractor on the basis of price and other evalua-21

tion criteria to perform, in accordance with the pro-22

visions of a firm fixed-price contract, both the design 23

and construction of a facility using performance 24

specifications supplied by the Secretary concerned. 25



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‘‘(2) The term ‘security assistance activity’ 1

means—2

‘‘(A) humanitarian and civic assistance au-3

thorized by sections 401 and 2561 of this title; 4

‘‘(B) foreign disaster assistance authorized 5

by section 404 of this title; 6

‘‘(C) foreign military construction sales au-7

thorized by section 29 of the Arms Export Con-8

trol Act (22 U.S.C. 2769); 9

‘‘(D) foreign assistance authorized under 10

sections 607 and 632 of the Foreign Assistance 11

Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2357, 2392); and 12

‘‘(E) other international security assistance 13

specifically authorized by law.’’.14



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SEC. 2804 [Log 53168]. EXTENSION OF LIMITATION ON CON-1

STRUCTION PROJECTS IN EUROPEAN COM-2

MAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY. 3

Section 2809 of the Military Construction Authoriza-4


113–66; 127 Stat. 1013) is amended—6

(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘or the Mili-7

tary Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 8

2015’’ after ‘‘this division’’; and 9

(2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘the date 10

of the enactment of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem-11

ber 27, 2013’’.12



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Subtitle B—Real Property and 1

Facilities Administration 2

SEC. 2811 [Log 53602]. CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT IN 3

CONNECTION WITH DEPARTMENT OF DE-4

FENSE MAJOR LAND ACQUISITIONS. 5

Section 2664(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 6

amended—7

(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘No military de-8

partment’’; 9

(2) by inserting after the first sentence the fol-10

lowing new paragraph: 11

‘‘(2) If the real property acquisition is a major land 12

acquisition inside a State, the District of Columbia, the 13

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 14

Northern Mariana Islands, or any territory or possession 15

of the United States, the Secretary concerned shall consult 16

with the chief executive officer of the State, the District 17

of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-18

monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the terri-19

tory or possession in which the land is located to deter-20

mine options for completing the real property acquisi-21

tion.’’; 22

(3) by striking ‘‘The foregoing limitation’’ and 23

inserting the following: 24



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‘‘(3) The limitations imposed by paragraphs (1) and 1

(2)’’; and 2

(4) by adding at the end the following new 3

paragraph: 4

‘‘(4) In this subsection, the term ‘major land acquisi-5

tion’ means any land acquisition not covered by the au-6

thority to acquire low-cost interests in land under section 7

2663(c) of this title.’’.8



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SEC. 2812 [Log 53686]. RENEWALS, EXTENSIONS, AND SUC-1

CEEDING LEASES FOR FINANCIAL INSTITU-2

TIONS OPERATING ON MILITARY INSTALLA-3

TIONS. 4

Section 2667(h) of title 10, United States Code, is 5

amended by adding at the end the following new para-6

graph: 7

‘‘(4)(A) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a renewal, 8

extension, or succeeding lease by the Secretary concerned 9

with a financial institution selected in accordance with the 10

Department of Defense Financial Management Regulation 11

providing for the selection of financial institutions to oper-12

ate on military installations if each of the following ap-13

plies: 14

‘‘(i) The on-base financial institution was se-15

lected before the date of the enactment of this para-16

graph or competitive procedures are used for the se-17

lection of any new financial institutions. 18

‘‘(ii) A current and binding operating agree-19

ment is in place between the installation commander 20

and the selected on-base financial institution. 21

‘‘(B) The renewal, extension, or succeeding lease shall 22

terminate upon the termination of the operating agree-23

ment described in subparagraph (A)(ii) associated with 24

that lease.’’.25



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SEC. 2813 [Log 53886]. ARSENAL INSTALLATION REUTILIZA-1

TION AUTHORITY. 2

Section 2667 of title 10, United States Code, is 3

amended—4

(1) by redesignating subsections (h), (i), and (j) 5

as subsections (i), (j), and (k), respectively; and 6

(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol-7

lowing new subsection (h): 8

‘‘(h) ARSENAL INSTALLATION REUTILIZATION AU-9

THORITY.—(1) In the case of a military manufacturing 10

arsenal, the Secretary concerned shall delegate, subject to 11

paragraph (2), the authority provided by this section to 12

the commander of the military manufacturing arsenal or, 13

if part of a larger military installation, the installation 14

commander for the purpose of—15

‘‘(A) helping to maintain the viability of mili-16

tary manufacturing arsenals and any installations on 17

which they are located; 18

‘‘(B) eliminating, or at least reducing, the cost 19

of Government ownership of military manufacturing 20

arsenals, including the costs of operations and main-21

tenance, the costs of environmental remediation, and 22

other costs; and 23

‘‘(C) leveraging private investment at military 24

manufacturing arsenals through long-term facility 25

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leases, or other agreements that support and ad-1

vance the preceding purposes. 2

‘‘(2) The authority delegated under paragraph (1) 3

does not include the authority to enter into a lease or con-4

tract under this section to carry out any activity covered 5

by section 4544(b) of this title related to sale of articles 6

manufactured by a military manufacturing arsenal or 7

services performed by a military manufacturing arsenal or 8

the performance of manufacturing work at the military 9

manufacturing arsenal. 10

‘‘(3) Both leases and contracts are authorized under 11

this section for a military manufacturing arsenal, and, 12

notwithstanding subsection (b)(1), the term of the lease 13

or contract may be for up to 25 years if a lease or contract 14

of that duration will promote the national defense or be 15

in the public interest. 16

‘‘(4) In this subsection, the term ‘military manufac-17

turing arsenal’ means a Government-owned, Government-18

operated defense plant of the Department of the Defense 19

that manufactures weapons, weapon components, or 20

both.’’.21



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SEC. 2814 [Log 53930]. DEPOSIT OF REIMBURSED FUNDS TO 1

COVER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES RELAT-2

ING TO CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY TRANS-3

ACTIONS. 4

(a) AUTHORITY TO CREDIT REIMBURSED FUNDS TO 5

ACCOUNTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.—Section 2695(c) of 6

title 10, United States Code, is amended—7

(1) by striking the first sentence and inserting 8

the following: ‘‘(1) Amounts collected by the Sec-9

retary of a military department under subsection (a) 10

for administrative expenses shall be credited, at the 11

option of the Secretary—12

‘‘(A) to the appropriation, fund, or account 13

from which the expenses were paid; or 14

‘‘(B) to an appropriate appropriation, fund, or 15

account currently available to the Secretary for the 16

purposes for which the expenses were paid.’’; and 17

(2) in the second sentence, by striking 18

‘‘Amounts so credited’’ and inserting the following: 19

‘‘(2) Amounts credited under paragraph (1)’’. 20

(b) PROSPECTIVE APPLICABILITY.—The amend-21

ments made by subsection (a) shall not apply to adminis-22

trative expenses related to a real property transaction re-23

ferred to in section 2695(b) of title 10, United States 24

Code, that were covered by the Secretary of a military de-25



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partment using amounts appropriated to the Secretary be-1

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Subtitle C—Provisions Related to 1

Asia-Pacific Military Realignment 2

SEC. 2831 [Log 53169]. REPEAL OR MODIFICATION OF CER-3

TAIN RESTRICTIONS ON REALIGNMENT OF 4

MARINE CORPS FORCES IN ASIA-PACIFIC RE-5

GION. 6

Section 2822 of the Military Construction Authoriza-7


113–66; 127 Stat. 1016) is amended—9

(1) by striking subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e); 10

(2) by redesignating subsections (d) and (f) as 11

subsections (b) and (c), respectively; and 12

(3) by inserting before subsection (b), as redes-13

ignated, the following new subsection (a): 14

‘‘(a) RESTRICTION ON DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC IN-15

FRASTRUCTURE.—16

‘‘(1) RESTRICTION.—If the Secretary of De-17

fense determines that any grant, cooperative agree-18

ment, transfer of funds to another Federal agency, 19

or supplement of funds available in fiscal year 2015 20

under Federal programs administered by agencies 21

other than the Department of Defense will result in 22

the development (including repair, replacement, ren-23

ovation, conversion, improvement, expansion, acqui-24

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Guam, the Secretary of Defense may not carry out 1

such grant, transfer, cooperative agreement, or sup-2

plemental funding unless such grant, transfer, coop-3

erative agreement, or supplemental funding directly 4

supports an infrastructure project agreed upon in 5

the March 2011 Programmatic Agreement signed by 6

the Department of Defense, the Advisory Council on 7

Historic Preservation, the Guam State Historic 8

Preservation Officer, and the Commonwealth of the 9

Northern Mariana Islands State Historic Preserva-10

tion Officer Regarding the Military Relocation to the 11

Islands of Guam and Tinian. 12

‘‘(2) PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEFINED.—In 13

this subsection, term ‘public infrastructure’ means 14

any utility, method of transportation, item of equip-15

ment, or facility under the control of a public entity 16

or State or local government that is used by, or con-17

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SEC. 2842 [Log 53191]. LAND CONVEYANCE, FORMER WAL-1

TER REED ARMY HOSPITAL, DISTRICT OF CO-2

LUMBIA. 3

(a) CONVEYANCE AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of 4

the Army may convey, without consideration, to Children’s 5

Hospital, nonprofit corporation organized under the laws 6

of the District of Columbia with its principal place of busi-7

ness in the District of Columbia (in this section referred 8

to as the ‘‘Children’s Hospital’’), all right, title, and inter-9

est of the United States in and to a parcel of real property 10

at former Walter Reed Army Hospital in the District of 11

Columbia consisting of approximately 13.25 acres and in-12

cluding building 54 (The Armed Forces Institute of Pa-13

thology Building and former Military Medical Museum), 14

building 53 (former post theater), building 52 (warehouse 15

and outpatient clinic), and building 3 (attached parking 16

structure) for the purpose of permitting Children’s Hos-17

pital to use the parcel for public-benefit purposes. 18

(b) CONDITION ON USE OF REVENUES.—If the prop-19

erty conveyed under subsection (a) is used for a public-20

benefit purpose that results in the generation of revenue 21

for Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital shall agree to 22

use the generated revenue only for medical research pur-23

poses by depositing the revenues in fund designated for 24

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(1) PAYMENT REQUIRED.—The Secretary of 1

the Army shall require Children’s Hospital to cover 2

costs (except costs for environmental remediation of 3

the property) to be incurred by the Secretary, or to 4

reimburse the Secretary for such costs incurred by 5

the Secretary, to carry out the conveyance under 6

subsection (a), including survey costs, costs for envi-7

ronmental documentation, and any other administra-8

tive costs related to the conveyance. If amounts are 9

collected from Children’s Hospital in advance of the 10

Secretary incurring the actual costs, and the amount 11

collected exceeds the costs actually incurred by the 12

Secretary to carry out the conveyance, the Secretary 13

shall refund the excess amount to Children’s Hos-14

pital. 15

(2) TREATMENT OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED.—16

Amounts received as reimbursement under para-17

graph (1) shall be credited to the fund or account 18

that was used to cover those costs incurred by the 19

Secretary in carrying out the conveyance. Amounts 20

so credited shall be merged with amounts in such 21

fund or account, and shall be available for the same 22

purposes, and subject to the same conditions and 23

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(d) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.—The exact acreage 1

and legal description of the property to be conveyed under 2

subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 3

to the Secretary of the Army. 4

(e) RELATION TO OTHER LAWS.—Section 2905(b) of 5

the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 6

(title XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) 7

and section 2696 of title 10, United States Code, shall 8

not apply with respect to the real property authorized for 9

conveyance under subsection (a). 10

(f) REVERSIONARY INTEREST.—If the Secretary of 11

the Army determines at any time that the real property 12

conveyed under subsection (a) is not being used in accord-13

ance with the purpose of the conveyance specified in sub-14

section (a) or that Children’s Hospital has violated the 15

condition on the use of revenues imposed by subsection 16

(b), all right, title, and interest in and to such real prop-17

erty, including any improvements thereto, shall, at the op-18

tion of the Secretary, revert to and become the property 19

of the United States, and the United States shall have 20

the right of immediate entry onto such real property. A 21

determination by the Secretary under this subsection shall 22

be made on the record after an opportunity for a hearing. 23

(g) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The 24

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and conditions in connection with the conveyance as the 1

Secretary considers appropriate to protect the interests of 2

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SEC. 2843 [Log 53791]. TRANSFERS OF ADMINISTRATIVE JU-1

RISDICTION, CAMP FRANK D. MERRILL AND 2

LAKE LANIER, GEORGIA. 3

(a) TRANSFERS REQUIRED.—4

(1) CAMP FRANK D. MERRILL.—Not later than 5

September 30, 2015, the Secretary of Agriculture 6

shall transfer to the administrative jurisdiction of 7

the Secretary of the Army for required Army force 8

protection measures certain Federal land adminis-9

tered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, 10

but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for 11

Camp Frank D. Merrill in Dahlonega, Georgia, con-12

sisting of approximately 282.304 acres identified in 13

the permit numbered 0018–01. 14

(2) LAKE LANIER PROPERTY.—In exchange for 15

the land transferred under paragraph (1), the Sec-16

retary of the Army (acting through the Chief of En-17

gineers) shall transfer to the administrative jurisdic-18

tion of the Secretary of Agriculture certain Federal 19

land administered by the Army Corps of Engineers 20

and consisting of approximately 10 acres adjacent to 21

Lake Lanier at 372 Dunlap Landing Road, Gaines-22

ville, Georgia. 23

(b) USE OF TRANSFERRED LAND.—24

(1) CAMP FRANK D. MERRILL.—Upon receipt of 25

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the Army shall continue to use the land for military 1

purposes. 2

(2) LAKE LANIER PROPERTY.—Upon receipt of 3

the land under subsection (a)(2), the Secretary of 4

Agriculture shall use the land for administrative 5

purposes. 6

(c) PROTECTION OF THE ETOWAH DARTER AND 7

HOLIDAY DARTER.—Nothing in the transfer required by 8

subsection (a)(1) shall affect the prior designation of lands 9

within the Chattahoochee National Forest as critical habi-10

tat for the Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae) and the 11

Holiday darter (Etheostoma brevirostrum). 12

(d) LEGAL DESCRIPTION AND MAP.—13

(1) PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION.—The 14

Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agri-15

culture shall publish in the Federal Register a legal 16

description and map of both parcels of land to be 17

transferred under subsection (a). 18

(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The legal description and 19

map filed under paragraph (1) for a parcel of land 20

shall have the same force and effect as if included 21

in this Act, except that the Secretaries may correct 22

errors in the legal description and map. 23

(e) REIMBURSEMENTS OF COSTS.—The transfers re-24

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ment, except that the Secretary of the Army shall reim-1

burse the Secretary of Agriculture for any costs incurred 2

by the Secretary of Agriculture to assist in the preparation 3

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SEC. 2844 [Log 53712]. LAND CONVEYANCE, JOINT BASE 1

PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII. 2


the Navy may convey, without consideration, to the Hono-4

lulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (in this section 5

referred to as the ‘‘Honolulu Authority’’), all right, title, 6

and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of 7

real property, including any improvements thereon, con-8

sisting of approximately 1.2 acres at or in the nearby vi-9

cinity of Radford Drive and the Makalapa Gate of Joint 10

Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, for the purpose of permitting 11

the Honolulu Authority to use the property for public pur-12

poses. 13

(b) CONDITION ON USE OF REVENUES.—If the prop-14

erty conveyed under subsection (a) is used, consistent with 15

such subsection, for a public purpose that results in the 16

generation of revenue for the Honolulu Authority, the 17

Honolulu Authority shall agree to use the generated rev-18

enue only for passenger rail transit purposes by depositing 19

the revenue in a fund designated for passenger rail transit 20

use. 21

(c) PAYMENT OF COSTS OF CONVEYANCE.—22


the Navy shall require the Honolulu Authority to 24

cover costs to be incurred by the Secretary, or to re-25

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Secretary, to carry out the conveyance under sub-1

section (a), including survey costs, costs for environ-2

mental documentation, and any other administrative 3

costs related to the conveyance. If amounts are col-4

lected from the Honolulu Authority in advance of 5

the Secretary incurring the actual costs, and the 6

amount collected exceeds the costs actually incurred 7

by the Secretary to carry out the conveyance, the 8

Secretary shall refund the excess amount to the 9

Honolulu Authority. 10










(d) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.—The exact acreage 20

and legal description of the property to be conveyed under 21

subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 22

to the Secretary of the Navy. 23

(e) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The 24

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and conditions in connection with the conveyance under 1

subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appropriate to 2

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SEC. 2845 [Log 53306]. LAND CONVEYANCE, ROBERT H. 1

DIETZ ARMY RESERVE CENTER, KINGSTON, 2

NEW YORK. 3


the Army may convey, without consideration, to the City 5

of Kingston, New York (in this section referred to as the 6

‘‘City’’), all right, title, and interest of the United States 7

in and to a parcel of real property, including any improve-8

ments thereon, consisting of approximately 4 acres and 9

containing the Robert H. Dietz Army Reserve Center lo-10

cated at 144 Flatbush Avenue in Kingston, New York, for 11

the purpose of permitting the City to use the parcel for 12

public purposes. 13

(b) REVERSIONARY INTEREST.—If the Secretary of 14

the Army determines at any time that the real property 15

conveyed under subsection (a) is not being used in accord-16

ance with the purpose of the conveyance specified in sub-17

section (a), all right, title, and interest in and to such real 18

property, including any improvements thereto, shall, at the 19

option of the Secretary, revert to and become the property 20

of the United States, and the United States shall have 21

the right of immediate entry onto such real property. A 22

determination by the Secretary under this subsection shall 23

be made on the record after an opportunity for a hearing. 24

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(1) FAIR MARKET VALUE.—In lieu of exercising 1

the reversionary interest under subsection (b) if the 2

Secretary of the Army determines that the conveyed 3

property is not being used in accordance with the 4

purpose of the conveyance, the Secretary may re-5

quire the City to pay to the United States an 6

amount equal to the fair market value of the prop-7

erty, as determined pursuant to paragraph (2). 8

(2) APPRAISAL; ADJUSTMENT.—The Secretary 9

shall determine the fair market value of the property 10

through an appraisal conducted by a licensed, inde-11

pendent appraiser acceptable to the Secretary and 12

the City. The fair market value of the property shall 13

be adjusted to exclude the value of any improve-14

ments on the property constructed by the City. 15

(d) PAYMENT OF COSTS OF CONVEYANCE.—16


the Army shall require the City to cover costs (ex-18

cept costs for environmental remediation of the 19

property) to be incurred by the Secretary, or to re-20

imburse the Secretary for such costs incurred by the 21

Secretary, to carry out the conveyance under sub-22

section (a), including survey costs, costs for environ-23

mental documentation, and any other administrative 24

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lected from the City in advance of the Secretary in-1

curring the actual costs, and the amount collected 2

exceeds the costs actually incurred by the Secretary 3

to carry out the conveyance, the Secretary shall re-4

fund the excess amount to the City. 5










(e) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The 15



subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appropriate to 18




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SEC. 2846 [Log 53571]. EXERCISE OF REVERSIONARY INTER-1

EST, CAMP GRUBER, OKLAHOMA. 2

(a) BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS.—Not later than 3

March 31, 2015, the Secretary of the Army shall perform 4

a business case analysis to consider the merits of seeking, 5

for use as military maneuver space, the reversion of 6

former Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, which—7

(1) consists of approximately 31,283.66 acres; 8

and 9

(2) was conveyed to the Oklahoma Department 10

of Wildlife in 1948 subject to a reversionary clause 11

that gives the United States the right to reacquire 12

the land if needed for national defense purposes. 13

(b) EXERCISE OF REVERSIONARY RIGHT.—If, as a 14

result of the business case analysis required by subsection 15

(a), the Secretary of the Army determines that reacquisi-16

tion of former Camp Gruber is needed for national defense 17

purposes, the Secretary shall exercise the reversionary 18

right and request the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife 19

to reconvey Camp Gruber to the United States. 20

(c) CONVEYANCE TO OKLAHOMA MILITARY DEPART-21

MENT.—If Camp Gruber is reacquired by the United 22

States under subsection (b), the Secretary of the Army 23

shall convey, without consideration, all right, title, and in-24

terest of the United States in and to Camp Gruber to the 25

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ting the Oklahoma Military Department to use Camp 1

Gruber as military maneuver space. 2

(d) CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary 3

of the Army shall conduct the business case analysis re-4

quired by subsection (a) and make the determination 5

under subsection (b) in consultation with the Adjutant 6

General of the Oklahoma Military Department. 7

(e) STRUCTURES AND IMPROVEMENTS.—The reac-8

quisition of Camp Gruber under this section shall include 9

the improvements, structures, and fixtures located at 10

Camp Gruber and related personal property. 11

(f) COSTS.—12

(1) COSTS OF EXERCISING REVERSION.—The 13

Secretary of the Army shall be responsible for all 14

reasonable and necessary costs associated with exer-15

cising the reversionary interest under subsection (b) 16

and reacquiring Camp Gruber, including real estate 17

transaction and environmental documentation costs. 18

(2) COSTS OF SUBSEQUENT CONVEYANCE.—19

(A) PAYMENT REQUIRED.—The Secretary 20

of the Army shall require the Oklahoma Mili-21

tary Department to cover costs to be incurred 22

by the Secretary, or to reimburse the Secretary 23

for such costs incurred by the Secretary, to 24

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including survey costs, costs for environmental 1

documentation, and any other administrative 2

costs related to the conveyance. If amounts are 3

collected from the Oklahoma Military Depart-4

ment in advance of the Secretary incurring the 5

actual costs, and the amount collected exceeds 6

the costs actually incurred by the Secretary to 7

carry out the conveyance, the Secretary shall 8

refund the excess amount to the Oklahoma 9

Military Department. 10

(B) TREATMENT OF AMOUNTS RE-11

CEIVED.—Amounts received as reimbursement 12

under subparagraph (A) shall be credited to the 13

fund or account that was used to cover those 14

costs incurred by the Secretary in carrying out 15

the conveyance. Amounts so credited shall be 16

merged with amounts in such fund or account, 17

and shall be available for the same purposes, 18

and subject to the same conditions and limita-19

tions, as amounts in such fund or account. 20

(g) PROHIBITION ON USE OF OPERATION AND MAIN-21

TENANCE FUNDS.—Notwithstanding subsection (f), the 22

Secretary of the Army may not use amounts appropriated 23

for operation and maintenance for the Army for the pur-24

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taining any portion of Camp Gruber reacquired by the 1

United States under subsection (b). 2

(h) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The 3



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Subtitle E—Other Matters 1

SEC. 2861 [Log 53684]. MEMORIAL TO THE VICTIMS OF THE 2

SHOOTING ATTACK AT THE WASHINGTON 3

NAVY YARD. 4

(a) MEMORIAL AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of the 5

Navy may establish on the grounds of the Washington 6

Navy Yard in the District of Columbia a memorial dedi-7

cated to the victims of the shooting attack at the Wash-8

ington Navy Yard that occurred on September 16, 2013. 9

(b) ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, AND RE-10

PAIR.—The Secretary of the Navy shall be responsible for 11

the establishment, maintenance, and repair of the memo-12

rial. 13

(c) ACCEPTANCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS; USE.—14

(1) ACCEPTANCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS.—The 15

Secretary of the Navy may solicit and accept mone-16

tary contributions and gifts of property for the pur-17

pose of establishing, maintaining, and repairing the 18

memorial without regard to limitations contained in 19

section 2601 of title 10, United States Code. 20

(2) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—There is 21

established on the books of the Treasury an account 22

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(3) DEPOSIT AND AVAILABILITY OF CONTRIBU-1

TIONS.—The Secretary of the Navy shall deposit 2

monetary contributions accepted under paragraph 3

(1) in the account. The funds in the account shall 4

be available to the Secretary, until expended and 5

without further appropriation, but only for the es-6

tablishment, maintenance, and repair of the memo-7

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SEC. 2862 [Log 53721]. REDESIGNATION OF THE ASIA-PA-1

CIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES AS 2

THE DANIEL K. INOUYE ASIA-PACIFIC CEN-3

TER FOR SECURITY STUDIES. 4

(a) REDESIGNATION.—The Department of Defense 5

regional center for security studies known as the Asia-Pa-6

cific Center for Security Studies is hereby renamed the 7

‘‘Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Stud-8

ies’’. 9

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—10

(1) REFERENCE TO REGIONAL CENTERS FOR 11

STRATEGIC STUDIES.—Section 184(b)(2)(B) of title 12

10, United States Code, is amended by striking 13

‘‘Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies’’ and in-14

serting ‘‘Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for 15

Security Studies’’. 16

(2) ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS AND DONATIONS.—17

Section 2611(a)(2)(B) of such title is amended by 18

striking ‘‘Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies’’ 19

and inserting ‘‘Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center 20

for Security Studies’’. 21

(c) REFERENCES.—Any reference to the Department 22

of Defense Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in any 23

law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of 24

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the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security 1

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SEC. 2863 [Log 53788]. REDESIGNATION OF POHAKULOA 1

TRAINING AREA IN HAWAII AS POHAKULOA 2

TRAINING CENTER. 3

(a) REDESIGNATION.—The Pohakuloa Training Area 4

in the State of Hawaii is hereby renamed the ‘‘Pohakuloa 5

Training Center’’. 6

(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference to the Pohakuloa 7

Training Area in any law, regulation, map, document, 8

record, or other paper of the United States shall be 9

deemed to be a reference to the Pohakuloa Training Cen-10

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SEC. 2864 [Log 53187]. DESIGNATION OF DISTINGUISHED 1

FLYING CROSS NATIONAL MEMORIAL IN RIV-2

ERSIDE, CALIFORNIA. 3

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 4

(1) The most reliable statistics regarding the 5

number of members of the Armed Forces who have 6

been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross indi-7

cate that 126,318 members of the Armed Forces re-8

ceived the medal during World War II, approxi-9

mately 21,000 members received the medal during 10

the Korean conflict, and 21,647 members received 11

the medal during the Vietnam War. Since the end 12

of the Vietnam War, more than 203 Armed Forces 13

members have received the medal in times of con-14

flict. 15

(2) The National Personnel Records Center in 16

St. Louis, Missouri, burned down in 1973, and thus 17

many more recipients of the Distinguished Flying 18

Cross may be undocumented. Currently, the Depart-19

ment of Defense continues to locate and identify 20

members of the Armed Forces who have received the 21

medal and are undocumented. 22

(3) The United States currently lacks a na-23

tional memorial dedicated to the bravery and sac-24

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have distinguished themselves by heroic deeds per-1

formed in aerial flight. 2

(4) An appropriate memorial to current and 3

former members of the Armed Forces is under con-4

struction at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, 5

California. 6

(5) This memorial will honor all those members 7

of the Armed Forces who have distinguished them-8

selves in aerial flight, whether documentation of 9

such members who earned the Distinguished Flying 10

Cross exists or not. 11

(b) DESIGNATION.—The memorial to members of the 12

Armed Forces who have been awarded the Distinguished 13

Flying Cross, located at March Field Air Museum in Riv-14

erside, California, is hereby designated as the Distin-15

guished Flying Cross National Memorial. 16

(c) EFFECT OF DESIGNATION.—The national memo-17

rial designated by this section is not a unit of the National 18

Park System, and the designation of the national memo-19

rial shall not be construed to require or permit Federal 20

funds to be expended for any purpose related to the na-21

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SEC. 2865 [Log 53186]. RENAMING SITE OF THE DAYTON 1

AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL 2

PARK, OHIO. 3

Section 101(b)(5) of the Dayton Aviation Heritage 4

Preservation Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 410ww(b)(5)) is 5

amended by striking ‘‘Aviation Center’’ and inserting 6

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SEC. 2866 [Log 53192]. MANHATTAN PROJECT NATIONAL 1

HISTORICAL PARK. 2

(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are—3

(1) to preserve and protect for the benefit of 4

present and future generations the nationally signifi-5

cant historic resources associated with the Manhat-6

tan Project and which are under the jurisdiction of 7

the Department of Energy defense environmental 8

cleanup program under this title; 9

(2) to improve public understanding of the 10

Manhattan Project and the legacy of the Manhattan 11

Project through interpretation of the historic re-12

sources associated with the Manhattan Project; 13

(3) to enhance public access to the Historical 14

Park consistent with protection of public safety, na-15

tional security, and other aspects of the mission of 16

the Department of Energy; and 17

(4) to assist the Department of Energy, Histor-18

ical Park communities, historical societies, and other 19

interested organizations and individuals in efforts to 20

preserve and protect the historically significant re-21

sources associated with the Manhattan Project. 22

(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 23

(1) HISTORICAL PARK.—The term ‘‘Historical 24

Park’’ means the Manhattan Project National His-25

torical Park established under subsection (c). 26



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(2) MANHATTAN PROJECT.—The term ‘‘Man-1

hattan Project’’ means the Federal military program 2

to develop an atomic bomb ending on December 31, 3

1946. 4

(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 5

the Secretary of the Interior. 6

(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF MANHATTAN PROJECT NA-7

TIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.—8

(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—9

(A) DATE.—Not later than 1 year after 10

the date of enactment of this section, there 11

shall be established as a unit of the National 12

Park System the Manhattan Project National 13

Historical Park. 14

(B) AREAS INCLUDED.—The Historical 15

Park shall consist of facilities and areas listed 16

under paragraph (2) as determined by the Sec-17

retary, in consultation with the Secretary of 18

Energy. The Secretary shall include the area 19

referred to in paragraph (2)(C)(i), the B Reac-20

tor National Historic Landmark, in the Histor-21

ical Park. 22

(2) ELIGIBLE AREAS.—The Historical Park 23

may only be comprised of one or more of the fol-24

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depicted in the map titled ‘‘Manhattan Project Na-1

tional Historical Park Sites’’, numbered 540/2

108,834–C, and dated September 2012: 3

(A) OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE.—Facilities, 4

land, or interests in land that are—5

(i) at Buildings 9204–3 and 9731 at 6

the Department of Energy Y–12 National 7

Security Complex; 8

(ii) at the X–10 Graphite Reactor at 9

the Department of Energy Oak Ridge Na-10

tional Laboratory; 11

(iii) at the K–25 Building site at the 12

Department of Energy East Tennessee 13

Technology Park; and 14

(iv) at the former Guest House lo-15

cated at 210 East Madison Road. 16

(B) LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO.—Facili-17

ties, land, or interests in land that are—18

(i) in the Los Alamos Scientific Lab-19

oratory National Historic Landmark Dis-20

trict, or any addition to the Landmark 21

District proposed in the National Historic 22

Landmark Nomination—Los Alamos Sci-23

entific Laboratory (LASL) NHL District 24

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amos National Laboratory document LA–1

UR 12–00387 (January 26, 2012); 2

(ii) at the former East Cafeteria lo-3

cated at 1670 Nectar Street; and 4

(iii) at the former dormitory located 5

at 1725 17th Street. 6

(C) HANFORD, WASHINGTON.—Facilities, 7

land, or interests in land on the Department of 8

Energy Hanford Nuclear Reservation that 9

are—10

(i) the B Reactor National Historic 11

Landmark; 12

(ii) the Hanford High School in the 13

town of Hanford and Hanford Construc-14

tion Camp Historic District; 15

(iii) the White Bluffs Bank building 16

in the White Bluffs Historic District; 17

(iv) the warehouse at the 18

Bruggemann’s Agricultural Complex; 19

(v) the Hanford Irrigation District 20

Pump House; and 21

(vi) the T Plant (221–T Process 22

Building). 23



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(3) WRITTEN CONSENT OF OWNER.—No non-1

Federal property may be included in the Historical 2

Park without the written consent of the owner. 3

(d) AGREEMENT.—4

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 5

the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary 6

and the Secretary of Energy (acting through the 7

Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Richland site offices) 8

shall enter into an agreement governing the respec-9

tive roles of the Secretary and the Secretary of En-10

ergy in administering the facilities, land, or interests 11

in land under the administrative jurisdiction of the 12

Department of Energy that is to be included in the 13

Historical Park under subsection (c)(2), including 14

provisions for enhanced public access, management, 15

interpretation, and historic preservation. 16

(2) RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SECRETARY.—17

Any agreement under paragraph (1) shall provide 18

that the Secretary shall—19

(A) have decisionmaking authority for the 20

content of historic interpretation of the Man-21

hattan Project for purposes of administering 22

the Historical Park; and 23

(B) ensure that the agreement provides an 24

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Service in preserving the historic resources cov-1

ered by the agreement. 2

(3) RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SECRETARY OF 3

ENERGY.—Any agreement under paragraph (1) shall 4

provide that the Secretary of Energy—5

(A) shall ensure that the agreement appro-6

priately protects public safety, national security, 7

and other aspects of the ongoing mission of the 8

Department of Energy at the Oak Ridge Res-9

ervation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and 10

Hanford Site; 11

(B) may consult with and provide histor-12

ical information to the Secretary concerning the 13

Manhattan Project; 14

(C) shall retain responsibility, in accord-15

ance with applicable law, for any environmental 16

remediation that may be necessary in or around 17

the facilities, land, or interests in land governed 18

by the agreement; and 19

(D) shall retain authority and legal obliga-20

tions for historic preservation and general 21

maintenance, including to ensure safe access, in 22

connection with the Department’s Manhattan 23

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(4) AMENDMENTS.—The agreement under 1

paragraph (1) may be amended, including to add to 2

the Historical Park facilities, land, or interests in 3

land within the eligible areas described in subsection 4

(c)(2) that are under the jurisdiction of the Sec-5

retary of Energy. 6

(e) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—7

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall consult 8

with interested State, county, and local officials, or-9

ganizations, and interested members of the public—10

(A) before executing any agreement under 11

subsection (d); and 12

(B) in the development of the general man-13

agement plan under subsection (f)(2). 14

(2) NOTICE OF DETERMINATION.—Not later 15

than 30 days after the date on which an agreement 16

under subsection (d) is entered into, the Secretary 17

shall publish in the Federal Register notice of the 18

establishment of the Historical Park, including an 19

official boundary map. 20

(3) AVAILABILITY OF MAP.—The official bound-21

ary map published under paragraph (2) shall be on 22

file and available for public inspection in the appro-23

priate offices of the National Park Service. The map 24

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torical Park from eligible areas described in sub-1

section (c)(2). 2

(4) ADDITIONS.—Any land, interest in land, or 3

facility within the eligible areas described in sub-4

section (c)(2) that is acquired by the Secretary or 5

included in an amendment to the agreement under 6

subsection (d)(4) shall be added to the Historical 7

Park. 8

(f) ADMINISTRATION.—9

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall admin-10

ister the Historical Park in accordance with—11

(A) this section; and 12

(B) the laws generally applicable to units 13

of the National Park System, including—14

(i) the National Park System Organic 15

Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.); and 16

(ii) the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 17

U.S.C. 461 et seq.). 18

(2) GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.—Not later 19

than 3 years after the date on which funds are made 20

available to carry out this subsection, the Secretary, 21

with the concurrence of the Secretary of Energy, 22

and in consultation and collaboration with the Oak 23

Ridge, Los Alamos and Richland Department of En-24

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ment plan for the Historical Park in accordance 1

with section 12(b) of Public Law 91–383 (commonly 2

known as the National Park Service General Au-3

thorities Act; 16 U.S.C. 1a–7(b)). 4

(3) INTERPRETIVE TOURS.—The Secretary 5

may, subject to applicable law, provide interpretive 6

tours of historically significant Manhattan Project 7

sites and resources in the States of Tennessee, New 8

Mexico, and Washington that are located outside the 9

boundary of the Historical Park. 10

(4) LAND ACQUISITION.—11

(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may ac-12

quire land and interests in land within the eligi-13

ble areas described in subsection (c)(2) by—14

(i) transfer of administrative jurisdic-15

tion from the Department of Energy by 16

agreement between the Secretary and the 17

Secretary of Energy; 18

(ii) donation; or 19

(iii) exchange. 20

(B) NO USE OF CONDEMNATION.—The 21

Secretary may not acquire by condemnation any 22

land or interest in land under this section or for 23

the purposes of this section. 24

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(A) FEDERAL FACILITIES.—1

(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may 2

enter into one or more agreements with the 3

head of a Federal agency to provide public 4

access to, and management, interpretation, 5

and historic preservation of, historically 6

significant Manhattan Project resources 7

under the jurisdiction or control of the 8

Federal agency. 9

(ii) DONATIONS; COOPERATIVE 10

AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary may accept 11

donations from, and enter into cooperative 12

agreements with, State governments, units 13

of local government, tribal governments, 14

organizations, or individuals to further the 15

purpose of an interagency agreement en-16

tered into under clause (i) or to provide 17

visitor services and administrative facilities 18

within reasonable proximity to the Histor-19

ical Park. 20

(B) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-21

retary may provide technical assistance to 22

State, local, or tribal governments, organiza-23

tions, or individuals for the management, inter-24

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cally significant Manhattan Project resources 1

not included within the Historical Park. 2

(C) DONATIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF EN-3

ERGY.—For the purposes of this section, or for 4

the purpose of preserving and providing access 5

to historically significant Manhattan Project re-6

sources, the Secretary of Energy may accept, 7

hold, administer, and use gifts, bequests, and 8

devises (including labor and services). 9

(g) CLARIFICATION.—10

(1) NO BUFFER ZONE CREATED.—Nothing in 11

this section, the establishment of the Historical 12

Park, or the management plan for the Historical 13

Park shall be construed to create buffer zones out-14

side of the Historical Park. That an activity can be 15

seen and heard from within the Historical Park shall 16

not preclude the conduct of that activity or use out-17

side the Historical Park. 18

(2) NO CAUSE OF ACTION.—Nothing in this 19

section shall constitute a cause of action with re-20

spect to activities outside or adjacent to the estab-21

lished boundary of the Historical Park.22



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Subtitle A—Naval Air Station 1

Fallon, Nevada 2

SEC. 2901 [Log 53703]. TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JU-3

RISDICTION, NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, 4

NEVADA. 5

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 6

date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 7

shall transfer to the Secretary of the Navy, without con-8

sideration, the Federal land described in subsection (b). 9

(b) DESCRIPTION OF FEDERAL LAND.—The Federal 10

land referred to in subsection (a) is the parcel of approxi-11

mately 400 acres of land under the jurisdiction of the Sec-12

retary of the Interior that—13

(1) is adjacent to Naval Air Station Fallon in 14

Churchill County, Nevada; and 15

(2) was withdrawn under Public Land Order 16

6834 (NV–943–4214–10; N–37875). 17

(c) MANAGEMENT.—On transfer of the Federal land 18

described under subsection (b) to the Secretary of the 19

Navy, the Secretary of the Navy shall have full jurisdic-20

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SEC. 2902 [Log 53719]. WATER RIGHTS. 1

(a) WATER RIGHTS.—Nothing in this subtitle shall 2

be construed—3

(1) to establish a reservation in favor of the 4

United States with respect to any water or water 5

right on lands transferred by this subtitle; or 6

(2) to authorize the appropriation of water on 7

lands transferred by this subtitle except in accord-8

ance with applicable State law. 9

(b) EFFECT ON PREVIOUSLY ACQUIRED OR RE-10

SERVED WATER RIGHTS.—This section shall not be con-11

strued to affect any water rights acquired or reserved by 12

the United States before the date of the enactment of this 13

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SEC. 2903 [Log 53720]. WITHDRAWAL. 1

Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal land to 2

be transferred under section 2901 is withdrawn from all 3

forms of appropriation under the public land laws, includ-4

ing the mining laws, the mineral leasing laws, and the geo-5

thermal leasing laws, so long as the land remains under 6

the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 7

Navy.8



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Subtitle B—Marine Corps Air 1

Ground Combat Center 2

Twentynine Palms, California 3

SEC. 2911 [Log 53859]. REDESIGNATION OF JOHNSON VAL-4

LEY OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE RECREATION 5

AREA, CALIFORNIA. 6

(a) REDESIGNATION.—The Johnson Valley Off-High-7

way Vehicle Recreation Area in California is hereby redes-8

ignated as the ‘‘Johnson Valley National Off-Highway Ve-9

hicle Recreation Area’’. 10

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Subtitle C of title 11

XXIX of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 12

Fiscal Year 2014 (division B of Public Law 113–66) is 13

amended—14

(1) in section 2942(c)(3) (127 Stat. 1037), by 15

striking ‘‘Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle 16

Recreation Area’’and inserting ‘‘Johnson Valley Na-17

tional Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area’’; and 18

(2) in section 2945 (127 Stat. 1038)—19

(A) in the section heading, by inserting 20

‘‘NATIONAL’’ after ‘‘VALLEY’’; 21

(B) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘Na-22

tional’’ after ‘‘Valley’’ in the matter preceding 23

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(C) in subsections (b), (c), and (d), by in-1

serting ‘‘National’’ after ‘‘Valley’’ each place it 2

appears. 3

(c) RELATION TO AUTHORIZED NAVY USE.—The re-4

designation of the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle 5

Recreation Area as the Johnson Valley National Off-High-6

way Vehicle Recreation Area does not alter or interfere 7

with the rights and obligations of the Navy regarding the 8

use of portions of the Recreation Area as provided in sub-9

title C of title XXIX of the Military Construction Author-10


113–66; 127 Stat. 1034). 12

(d) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any law, regula-13

tion, document, record, map, or other paper of the United 14

States to the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recre-15

ation Area is deemed to be a reference to the Johnson 16

Valley National Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area.17



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Subtitle C—Bureau of Land Man-1

agement Withdrawn Military 2

Lands Efficiency and Savings 3

SEC. 2921 [Log 53194]. ELIMINATION OF TERMINATION DATE 4

FOR PUBLIC LAND WITHDRAWALS AND RES-5

ERVATIONS UNDER MILITARY LANDS WITH-6

DRAWAL ACT OF 1999. 7

(a) ELIMINATION OF TERMINATION DATE.—Section 8

3015(a) of the Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999 9

(title XXX of Public Law 106–65; 113 Stat. 892) is 10

amended by striking ‘‘shall’’ the first place it appears and 11

all that follows through the period and inserting ‘‘shall not 12

terminate other than by an election and determination of 13

the Secretary of the military department concerned or 14

until such time as the Secretary of the Interior can perma-15

nently transfer administrative jurisdiction of the lands 16

withdrawn and reserved by this Act to the Secretary of 17

the military department concerned.’’. 18

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 3016 of the 19

Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999 (title XXX of 20

Public Law 106–65; 113 Stat. 893) is repealed.21



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TITLE XXXIV—NAVAL 1

PETROLEUM RESERVES2

Sec. 3401. Authorization of appropriations.

SEC. 3401 øLog 53949¿. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-3

TIONS. 4

(a) AMOUNT.—There are hereby authorized to be ap-5

propriated to the Secretary of Energy $19,950,000 for fis-6

cal year 2015 for the purpose of carrying out activities 7

under chapter 641 of title 10, United States Code, relating 8

to the naval petroleum reserves. 9

(b) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated 10

pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in sub-11

section (a) shall remain available until expended.12

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Table Of Contents


TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

ENERGY ISSUES

Comptroller General Utilities Disruption and Energy Security Mandate

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Energy Efficiencies

LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT ISSUES

Army Workload and Performance System

Auditability of Data Used to Measure Depot Maintenance Workload

Distribution

Comptroller General Review of Forward Deployed Naval Forces and

Associated Sustainment Issues

Department of Defense Inspector General Determination of Fair and

Reasonable Cost of Spare Parts

Eligibility and Performance of Carriers Who Transport Hazardous Materials

for the Department of Defense

Manufacturing Infrastructure Investment

Public-Private Partnerships at Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence

Report on the Department of Defense’s Transportation of Hazardous Materials

Submarine Propeller Repair and Overhaul

Sustainment of Deployed Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense

READINESS ISSUES

Adequacy of Airlift and Refueling Capabilities in the Western Pacific

Advanced Situational Awareness Training Assessment

Comptroller General Report on Readiness Metrics

OTHER MATTERS

Briefing on Invasive Species Management

Cold-Weather Protective Clothing

Comptroller General Review of Process for the Disposition of Excess Defense

Articles

Waste Disposal Technologies in Contingency Operations

TITLE X—GENERAL PROVISIONS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

OTHER MATTERS

Department of Defense Installation Security

Reconstitution of Air Force Weapons Storage Areas

U.S. Transportation Command Report on Operational and Tactical Control of

All Department of Defense Executive Airlift Aircraft


TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

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Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility

TITLE XXVII—BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACTIVITIES ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Base Closure and Realignment Disposal Assessment

Joint Base Closure and Realignment Recommendations

Property Disposal Methods


PROVISIONS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Army Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment

Deployment of Secure Work Enviroments

Facilities Modernization Model

High Performance Facades for Department of Defense Installations

Joint Land Use Study

Public-Private Family Housing on Guam

Real Property Management

Type I and Type III Retro-Reflective Glass Beads


TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

ENERGY ISSUES

Comptroller General Utilities Disruption and Energy Security Mandate

United States military installations consume large amounts of energy and

water to maintain effective installation operations and ensure mission readiness

and capability. At the same time, U.S. utilities systems may be at risk from civilian

power grid failures due to natural or manmade threats, including cyber threats and

electromagnetic pulse events. The United States experienced significant power

disruptions from severe weather events in 2012, including Hurricane Sandy which

affected the northeast region, and the derecho which affected the mid-Atlantic,

including the National Capital Region, as well as late winter storms in February-

March 2014 that left hundreds of thousands of customers without power in areas

from the Northeast through the Midwest and parts of the Deep South. These

weather events affected installations, housing, military logistics centers, training

centers, military commands, and other critical military activities. As such the

committee is concerned that the impact of such disruptions to an installation's

electricity, potable water, and wastewater services has a direct impact on critical

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mission readiness. It is vital that military installations have the ability to maintain

effective operations and energy security despite such disruptions.

The committee is encouraged that the Department of Defense and the

military services are focusing on the potential for utilities service disruptions to

impact installation mission capability and consequently to ensure the ability of the

installations to nonetheless maintain operations. Still, it is not clear what efforts

the Department is undertaking to ensure and promote energy security across its

facilities. Accordingly, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United

States to undertake a study of the status of the Department’s and the military

services’ actions to ensure mission capability and energy security in the event of

potentially significant and long-term disruptions to electric, potable water, and

wastewater services at domestic and overseas military installations. The study

should address the following questions:

(1) What is the status of water and energy security plans, strategies, and

related guidance to the military departments and the installations to ensure

mission capability through the continued provision of electricity, potable water, and

wastewater services in the event of natural or manmade disruptions?

(2) To what extent were domestic military installations able to maintain

effective mission capability during natural or manmade utility service disruptions

since 2012?

(3) How are the military departments and installations planning to

continue ensuring mission capability and energy security despite the threat to

electric, potable water, and wastewater services posed by natural or manmade

service disruptions? The Comptroller General should report the results of this

study to the congressional defense committees by March 2, 2015.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Energy Efficiencies

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a review of the

energy efficiency initiatives, including non-conventional power sources, of

unmanned aerial vehicles to extend range and endurance and increase speed. The

review should also include an assessment on how the adoption of autonomous

technology could reduce the demand for energy and logistics. The Secretary should

submit the results of the review to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate

and the House of Representatives not later than April 1, 2015.

LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT ISSUES

Army Workload and Performance System

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report

criticizing the Army's management of the Army Workload and Performance System

(AWPS), the Army manpower requirements determination tool, and related

matters. Remarkably, the Army failed to provide any responses to GAO's findings.

This report noted that the Army failed to submit annual progress reports regarding

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implementation of AWPS master plan or catalog any revisions of the master plan to

Congress as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year

2002 (Public Law 107-107). The initial master plans submitted to the committee

were responsive and compelling and evidenced high-level interest within the

Department of the Army. As a result, the committee concluded from those early

reports and system demonstrations that the Army was serious about installing

time, workload, and performance management systems across the Army

infrastructure for all categories of labor, including logistics and sustainment.

The committee concludes that the Army's failure to comply with the

directives in Public Law 107-107 requires a re-evaluation of how to complete this

departmental task. The committee recommends that a high-priority Secretariat-

level project office and reporting structure be established with sufficient authority

to implement the original, responsive master plan and its revisions. Further, the

Secretary should affix responsibility for an inclusive, annual master plan

implementation reporting process.

The committee expects the Government Accountability Office, as required

by law, to evaluate the master plan and report to Congress on the Army's progress.

As stated in previous committee reports (as well as Army reports), evaluation

should include not only implementation throughout Army commands and

infrastructure, but also assess whether budget submissions are supported by this

data. In the committee report (H. Rept 104-131) accompanying the National

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, the committee noted that the

evaluation should include corporate-level systems and integration. Additionally, the

committee directs the Comptroller General of the United States, as part of this

ongoing work, to examine and report to the House Committee on Armed Services on

how the workload and manpower data provided through the AWPS system could

improve reporting and transparency for 50/50 workload reporting, including all

maintenance activity in acquisition organizations, as well as Army Materiel

Command.

Auditability of Data Used to Measure Depot Maintenance Workload Distribution

The committee has become aware that, apart from the Army, the military

departments have not involved their audit agencies in validating the data

submitted for incorporation into the annual report to Congress required by section

2466 of title 10, United States Code, also known as the "50/50 report," for several

years. The committee is troubled by the finding that in the limited number of cases

where auditors have been involved in reviewing these data, they identified

significant errors. The committee is also aware that in some instances, the data

included for submission related to depot-level workloads performed under

contractor logistics support, interim contractor support, or other contractual

arrangements are generated through the use of algorithms or other forms of cost

estimation. In some cases, these estimates appear to have been generated using

insufficiently rigorous methodologies.

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These findings lead the committee to conclude the fidelity of the data

supporting the annual "50/50 report" is questionable and could be distorting the

true distribution of workload between the public and private sectors, reducing the

committee’s confidence in the report’s accuracy and completeness, as well as

inhibiting the military services from making fully informed decisions regarding

source of repair in the context of section 2466 of title 10, United States Code.

The January 14, 2014, guidance titled "Reporting Guidance for the FY2013-

2015 Report to Congress on the Distribution of Department of Defense Depot

Maintenance Workloads," issued by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics

and Materiel Readiness, states that "Military departments and Agencies shall

obtain the assistance of internal audit agencies or an Office of the Secretary of

Defense (OSD)-agreed upon third party to conduct detailed reviews to validate the

process for capturing depot maintenance expenditure data by reporting

organizations." The committee notes that this reporting guidance reflects a change

from prior guidance, which did not include process validation, only data validation

prior to OSD submission. In the committee’s view, it is imperative that the data

submitted to the Congress be validated. Moreover, the committee believes that

participation of the military departments’ audit agencies in validating the data

submitted for the “50/50 report” will provide the greatest assurance that what is

reported represents an accurate and complete picture of the distribution of depot-

level workload between the public and private sectors.

Accordingly, the committee directs the military departments and defense

agencies to comply with the guidance to the fullest extent, and, to the degree that it

is practicable, ensure direct military department audit agency involvement in this

effort. Specifically, this effort should provide assurance that the data submitted for

inclusion in the “50/50 report” is accurate and complete. The Secretary of Defense,

in the next two annual reports to Congress required under section 2466 of title 10,

United States Code, should include a description of the efforts made by each of the

military departments and defense agencies to comply with the validation

requirement. The committee notes that if voluntary compliance is not evidenced,

the committee will consider statutory enforcement.

Comptroller General Review of Forward Deployed Naval Forces and Associated

Sustainment Issues

Forward presence is critical to the Navy's goals of building partnerships,

deterring aggression without escalation, defusing threats, and containing conflict

without regional disruption. Naval forces provide forward presence through a

combination of rotational deployments from the United States, Forward Deployed

Naval Forces (FDNF) in Japan, Guam, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Italian

Republic, and forward stationing ships in places such as the Kingdom of Bahrain,

the Republic of Singapore, and Diego Garcia. The Navy’s ability to implement these

concepts depends on U.S. bases and strategic partnerships overseas that provide

places where forces can rest, repair, refuel, and resupply. In the FDNF construct,

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the ships, crews and families all reside in the host nation. This construct is in

contrast to forward stationing, where the ship’s families reside in the United States

and the crew rotates to the ship’s overseas location for deployment.

The committee seeks a more detailed understanding of the Navy's decision-

making process to designate ships to be either FDNF or forward stationed and the

relative costs and benefits of each approach. The committee directs the Comptroller

General of the United States to provide a report to the congressional defense

committees by February 27, 2015. The report should include a review and analysis

of:

(1) The Navy’s process for determining the homeport locations of naval

vessels, including FDNF;

(2) The Navy’s process for stationing naval vessels outside the United

States;

(3) How the Navy calculates deployment costs of vessels homeported inside

and outside the United States;

(4) The extent to which the Navy has utilized rotational crewing to meet

forward presence requirements;

(5) The operational availability achieved by rotational crewing, the savings

achieved, and the limitations associated with directed rotational crewing;

(6) The operational support and sustainment effects of deploying U.S.-based

vessels to a forward operating station as opposed to homeporting vessels outside the

United States, including costs of complying with section 7310 of title 10, United

States Code, maintenance requirements;

(7) The infrastructure requirements, as well as host-nation acceptance

requirements to ensure the assets are received overseas; and

(8) Any other issue that the Comptroller General determines appropriate.

Department of Defense Inspector General Determination of Fair and Reasonable

Cost of Spare Parts

The committee has received testimony that sustainment of military

equipment is the most expensive phase of the Department of Defense's acquisition

process. The committee is alarmed by frequent reports from the Department of

Defense Inspector General (DODIG) and the Government Accountability Office

(GAO) that the Department has paid hundreds of millions of dollars above what are

considered fair and reasonable prices for weapon system spare parts and is missing

opportunities for significant savings.

Accordingly, the committee directs the Department of Defense Inspector

General to perform a comprehensive audit to determine if current Department of

Defense guidance is sufficient to obtain fair and reasonable prices for equipment

spare parts. The audit should assess the extent to which the Defense Logistics

Agency (DLA) and the military departments have put in place metrics for

measuring:

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(1) The extent to which guidance and efforts to improve demand forecasting

are effective for ensuring appropriate and adequate provision of spare parts and

other supplies needed to keep military equipment ready and operating; and

(2) Inventory management cost efficiency.

The DODIG should also assess the costs the Department of Defense has

incurred by paying prices beyond what is fair and reasonable for spare parts and

other supplies. The DODIG’s audit should assess the prevalence of disparities

between prices deemed to be fair and reasonable and those prices paid by the DLA

and the military departments for spare parts or supplies, and potential cost savings

if the parts or other supplies had been obtained by DLA and the military

departments instead of through a performance-based logistics support contract.

The DODIG should provide a report on the results of the audit to the congressional

defense committees not later than February 28, 2015.

Eligibility and Performance of Carriers Who Transport Hazardous Materials for the

Department of Defense

The Department of Defense every year facilitates nearly 70,000 separate

shipments of security sensitive material. Trucks carrying these shipments travel

tens of thousands of miles on U.S. interstates, highways, and local thoroughfares

across all 50 States. Materials that are transported include missiles, arms/weapons,

ammunition, explosives, radioactive material, and classified items. Shipments are

executed under the Transportation Protective Services (TPS) program which

requires stringent safety and security standards for operators who are licensed to do

business with the program.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a comprehensive

review of the policies and procedures used by the Department of Defense in the

handling of hazardous material shipments pursuant to section 363 of the National

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (Public Law 112-239). In its report

to the committee, the GAO stated that the Safety Measurement System scores used

by the Department to determine safety performance of its TPS carriers “should not

be used to draw safety conclusions about a carrier’s safety condition. As a result,

the Department may not be using the most reliable data from the Compliance,

Safety, Accountability’s Safety Measurement System to determine which carriers

should be eligible for the [TPS] program.”

As a result of this finding, and to ensure the safety and security of

Department of Defense’s shipments of sensitive arms, ammunition, and explosives,

the committee directs the Commander, U.S. Transportation Command, to examine

the data limitations of the Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier

Safety Administration’s Safety and Accountability program and report to the House

Armed Services Committee by December 15, 2014, on what changes, if any, should

be made to the process used by the Department of Defense to determine hazardous

material carrier eligibility and evaluate performance of carriers within the TPS

program. Additionally, the Commander, U.S. Transportation Command, is directed

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to provide a briefing to the House Armed Services Committee by September 30,

2015, on the progress made to implement the changes.

Manufacturing Infrastructure Investment

The committee is aware of the unique challenges and varied relationships

associated with the broad range of customers who have for decades supported the

continued combat vehicle production capability at the Joint Systems Manufacturing

Center (JSMC). As a government-owned, contractor-operated facility, JSMC

represents a unique, long-term fiscal challenge for the U.S. Army for the continued

maintenance and periodic upgrade of the facility, which has a deferred maintenance

and repair projects list totaling over $40.0 million. Production Base Support

funding over the past several years has been insufficient to support minimum

JSMC maintenance requirements, including correcting critical safety and

environmental deficiencies.

The Department of the Army must ensure the facility is properly resourced

to efficiently and effectively meet the Army’s tank and other combat vehicle

production-related requirements, Foreign Military Sales (FMS), and Direct

Commercial Sales for the foreseeable future. The committee understands the

difficulty in determining how the Department should share the operational support

costs associated with the JSMC across the broad range of current and future

customers. For example, future FMS programs could generate more than $10.0

million in facilities usage fees. The committee believes reinvestment of these funds

could help remediate facilities maintenance deficiencies and subsequently benefit

all current and future JSMC customers.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to submit a

report to the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on

Armed Services not later than February 9, 2015, on the Army’s analysis, plans,

and/or recommendations, to include potential legislative proposals, on how the

operational costs associated with the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center could be

equitably applied so that the facility can remain viable and relevant.

Public-Private Partnerships at Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence

The committee recognizes the mutual benefits to both the organic and

commercial industrial base of partnering activities especially in a resource-

constrained environment. The committee also believes that full visibility into the

scope and scale of partnerships is critical for proper oversight of industrial base

sustainment. As a result, the committee is concerned about the lack of visibility into

the Department of Defense's public-private partnership activities authorized by

section 2474 of title 10, United States Code. The committee directs the Secretary of

Defense to deliver to the congressional defense committees by January 5, 2015, a

report on all partnerships entered into pursuant to section 2474 of title 10, United

States Code, in fiscal year 2014 and for the preceding three fiscal years. The report

at a minimum should include the location of work performed under the partnership,

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the commercial and organic entities comprising the partnership, the length of the

partnership, and a description of the work performed by the partnership.

Report on the Department of Defense’s Transportation of Hazardous Materials

The Department of Defense transports more than 1.5 million hazardous

material (HAZMAT) shipments each year. These shipments can be high-risk as well

as highly sensitive and, if improperly handled, labeled, or packaged could result in

the loss of life, property damage, and harm to national security interests. A complex

framework of statutes and regulations governs the Department’s handling, labeling,

and packaging of hazardous material shipments. The Government Accountability

Office (GAO) recently reported on challenges the Department has experienced in

implementing these regulations, which can adversely affect the safe, timely, and

cost-effective transportation of hazardous materials. For example, in some cases

Department of Defense installations did not provide carriers transporting sensitive

arms, ammunition and explosives hazardous materials with timely access to secure

hold areas or assist them in locating the nearest alternate means to secure those

shipments, leaving these items in the public domain longer than necessary.

Accordingly, the committee encourages the Department to develop a process to

identify and implement the necessary corrective actions to ensure that its

installations provide secure hold as required. Additionally, GAO found a

substantial number of hazardous material shipments were not documented and

packaged in accordance with regulations and other guidance, which resulted in

delays. The committee is concerned about costs (and potential operational impacts)

that may be incurred by the Department as a result of these delays or whether any

materials were unnecessarily shipped through the more expensive Transportation

Protective Services program because they were improperly identified as sensitive

items.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a

report to the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on

Armed Services by December 1, 2014, on the Department of Defense’s

transportation of hazardous materials. That report should also be provided to the

Comptroller General of the United States at that time. Specifically, the report

should include, but is not limited to, a discussion of:

(1) The root causes of improper documentation and packaging of HAZMAT

throughout the Department of Defense transportation system;

(2) The extent to which Transportation Protective Services are being used

to transport HAZMAT shipments that could safely and securely be transported

using less costly means;

(3) Any needed corrective actions and an action plan with associated

milestones to implement those corrective actions.

After the Secretary provides the report to Congress, the Comptroller

General of the United States should conduct a review of the report and provide a

preliminary briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the

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House of Representatives by March 15, 2015, with a final report or reports to follow

within 120 days.

Submarine Propeller Repair and Overhaul

The committee understands the Navy continues to request partial funding

to support submarine propeller repair and overhaul (SPRO) in the Overseas

Contingency Operations account, rather than planning for full funding based on

true historical and current year SPRO expenditures within the Navy’s annual

defense budget. Additionally, the committee remains concerned with the Navy's

ongoing proposed "repair only" approach to SPRO. The committee directs the

Secretary of the Navy to re-evaluate this plan and report to the Committee on

Armed Services of the House of Representatives by December 15, 2014, on an

approach, to include both fiscal year 2015 and Future Years Defense Program

funding, that addresses the ongoing mix of both propeller repair and overhaul

needs.

Sustainment of Deployed Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense

The committee commends the Department of Defense for its rapid and

successful deployment of an Army Air and Missile Defense Task Force (AMDTF)

and Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense battery to

Guam last spring in response to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s

aggressive posture. The committee notes that Army Chief of Staff, General

Raymond Odierno, in testimony before the committee, stated that the Army is

working on plans to sustain a long-term presence of a THAAD battery and an

AMDTF on Guam to provide necessary protection of military manpower, assets, and

civilians. In order to better understand the requirements to sustain an AMDTF and

THAAD battery on Guam, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in

consultation with the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, to report to the

committee by January 31, 2015, on the following requirements related to THAAD

sustainment:

(1) An accounting of force structure needed, including potential Army

National Guard or Army Reserve force structure;

(2) Potential military construction needed for force protection and other

sustainment issues;

(3) Estimated military personnel and operation and maintenance costs; and

(4) Any legal, statutory, or authority challenges associated with sustaining

an AMDTF and THAAD battery on Guam.

READINESS ISSUES

Adequacy of Airlift and Refueling Capabilities in the Western Pacific

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Recognizing the strategic importance of the Department of Defense’s efforts

to rebalance forces to the Asia-Pacific region, the committee continues to question

the adequacy of airlift and refueling capabilities in that region. U.S. Pacific

Command (PACOM) must accomplish a variety of missions and requirements in a

geographic area of responsibility that spans almost 9,000 miles from Hawaii in the

Pacific Ocean to the Republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Airlift and refueling

capabilities play a critical role in supporting and sustaining forward-deployed forces

in the Asia-Pacific region.

The committee is concerned about the ability of the U.S. Air Force to

provide sustained airlift to support ground forces and equipment in the region to

meet current and emerging requirements. Particularly, the committee is concerned

about the cost of the current rotational tanker presence in the western Pacific.

Given current budget constraints and the risk in the readiness accounts, the

committee is concerned that rotational presence may not be the most fiscally

prudent means of meeting airlift and refueling requirements, especially in light of

the potential for sustained sequestration. The committee, therefore, directs the

Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, in consultation with the Commander, Pacific

Air Forces, to brief the committee by March 30, 2015, on airlift and tanker

capabilities in the Pacific Command area of responsibility. At a minimum, the

briefing should include:

(1) The cost of current rotational tanker presence in the western Pacific;

(2) The cost of permanently stationing tankers in the western Pacific to

meet current operational requirements; and

(3) Plans for future beddown of permanent and rotational airlift and tanker

assets in the western Pacific to meet Pacific Command operational requirements.

Advanced Situational Awareness Training Assessment

The committee is aware that the Army continues to successfully incorporate

training modules to detect changes in human behavior through Advanced

Situational Awareness Training (ASAT). The committee recognizes the benefits of

such training and the enhancement to mission effectiveness, decisive advantage,

enhanced use of existing optical equipment, and reduction of civilian casualties that

it can help provide. The committee believes the benefits of situational awareness

training are significant enough to warrant a long-term assessment of ASAT training

requirements and a plan for possible future institutionalization.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct an assessment

of ASAT training and brief the House Committee on Armed Services on the results

not later than October 1, 2014. This assessment and briefing should specifically

include current ASAT training requirements, the cost and time required to

institutionalize an ASAT training program across the Army, and quantifiable

training benefits achieved by ASAT training to date.

Comptroller General Report on Readiness Metrics

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For decades the Department of Defense has used “C-ratings,” which

measure unit resources and training against doctrinal wartime missions, to

measure the readiness of its forces. However, to support the recent missions in the

Republic of Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, units have repeatedly

been reconfigured and task-organized or called upon to execute missions that

differed from their core doctrinal mission statements. To better portray readiness in

this new environment, the Department has added “assigned mission” and

“capability” ratings to its traditional C-ratings. The military departments and

combatant commands also began reporting readiness assessment levels (RA-levels)

to portray their strategic readiness. While the combination of traditional and newer

readiness metrics have allowed the Department to portray its readiness for a much

wider range of missions than in the past, the metrics do not fully account for the

time component of readiness. Traditional C-ratings and assigned mission ratings

tend to emphasize readiness at a particular point in time (the day the rating is

completed). Capability and RA-ratings have an implicit time component because

they measure readiness against timelines that are laid out in operations and

contingency plans. However, the committee has observed that none of the metrics

clearly answer the question of when forces will be ready. Over the past decade,

when the committee has asked that question, the ubiquitous response has been that

most units will be ready “just in time.”

With the prolonged growth of non-discretionary spending placing continued

fiscal pressure on the defense budget, the “just-in-time” answer does little to help

decisionmakers minimize risk while preparing for a future that, in the words of the

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is “dangerous and uncertain.” Because units

from different military departments can often provide similar, if not identical,

capabilities, the committee believes the Department’s leadership and the Congress

need to understand differences in both the speed and cost at which the military

departments can provide ready forces to meet combatant commander requirements

so they can prioritize resources and minimize risk.

To help inform the committee’s oversight and its consideration of the

President’s budget request, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the

United States to review the Department of Defense’s readiness. The review should

include, but not be limited to:

(1) The current readiness of the military departments and combatant

commands, as reported in their December 2013 readiness reports;

(2) A description of the key factors that are affecting the readiness of the

military departments and the combatant commands, as well as a description of the

steps being taken to address or mitigate the impact of those factors;

(3) An analysis of the extent to which “time” is or has been incorporated as

a quantitative or qualitative component of current and past readiness metrics: and

(4) A description of any efforts the military departments, the combatant

commands, the Joint Staff, or the Office of the Secretary of Defense have made to

modify their readiness metrics or add any additional metrics to better address the

question of when units or commands will be ready.

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The committee directs the Comptroller General to provide a preliminary

briefing on these four elements to the congressional defense committees by

February 15, 2015, with a report or reports to follow.

OTHER MATTERS

Briefing on Invasive Species Management

The committee notes that in the fall of 2013, the coconut rhinoceros beetle,

an invasive species to the Hawaiian Islands and Guam, was discovered on the

island of Oahu and has been found on Guam since 2007. While it is unknown how

the species came to Hawaii or Guam, the committee is aware that a coconut

rhinoceros beetle population was identified on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam,

which is in close proximity to Honolulu International Airport. Since discovering the

existence of this invasive species on Hawaii, the committee notes that the

Department of Agriculture has been leading the effort, jointly with the Department

of Defense and appropriate State agencies, to eliminate breeding sites, and monitor

and control the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle on the island of Oahu.

In addition to the more immediate response, the committee notes that the

Department of Defense is already addressing invasive species through other

mechanisms. Specifically, the Department of the Navy is supporting efforts to

develop the Micronesian Biosecurity Plan, jointly with the Department of

Agriculture, and the governments of the State of Hawaii, Guam, the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of Palau, the

Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. In

preparing the plan, the partners evaluated invasive species risks to marine,

terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems, to include the coconut rhinoceros beetle.

Additionally, for invasive species management, the committee notes that Joint Base

Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Joint Region Marianas maintain an Integrated Natural

Resources Management Plan which includes measures to prevent the proliferation

of invasive species.

The committee encourages the Department of the Navy to continue its work

with the Department of Agriculture, as well as State and local entities, to monitor

and contain any further spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle within Hawaii and

Guam. The committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing to the

committee not later than September 1, 2014, regarding the status of the coconut

rhinoceros beetle on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Joint Region Marianas

and steps the Department of the Navy has taken, working with partners, to control,

mitigate, or eradicate the species or its habitat.

Cold-Weather Protective Clothing

The committee is concerned that the use of end-of-year funding for the

acquisition of cold-weather clothing, glove systems, and equipment for training, and

for cold-weather combat negatively affect military readiness and the defense

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industrial base. Accordingly, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to

provide the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of

Representatives, not later than September 30, 2014, a report describing the

Department's efforts to provide the Active and Reserve Components with the cold-

weather clothing, glove systems, and equipment required for training and

deployments. The committee directs the Secretary to include in the report an

update on the funding needed to meet Active and Reserve Component requirements

for cold-weather clothing, glove systems, and equipment in fiscal years 2015 and

2016. The report should also include an acquisition strategy and spending plan

outlining the projected schedule for the obligation of funds to acquire the necessary

equipment.

Comptroller General Review of Process for the Disposition of Excess Defense

Articles

The Department of Defense is a large provider of surplus personal property

and equipment that goes to local governments, fire and police departments,

Veterans Service Organizations, hospitals, and many other local entities. The

transfer of surplus personal property and equipment to other Federal agencies and

local and State governments by the Department provides a significant savings of

American taxpayer dollars. As budgetary resources continue to shrink, it is

imperative that American tax dollars are well spent and managed and re-utilization

within the Department of Defense is maximized. Furthermore, it is important that

any surplus personal property and equipment that is being sold through the

Department of Defense surplus property sales program is done in accordance with

laws relating to the disposition of excess and surplus property. As surplus personal

property and equipment become more valuable, the Department of Defense and the

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) should have procedures and protocols to ensure

that fair market value for surplus personal property and equipment is being

received. If the Department is not receiving fair market value for surplus personal

property and equipment being sold, this could be a serious financial loss to the

American taxpayer.

To ensure that the taxpayer is getting the greatest financial benefit out of

surplus equipment originally purchased with tax dollars, the committee directs the

Comptroller General of the United States to review and report to the congressional

defense committees on the Department of Defense’s and the Defense Logistics

Agency’s excess and surplus personal property programs, including their programs

that provide excess or surplus personal property and equipment to other Federal

agencies and to local and State governments and on their programs that sell

surplus personal property and equipment. The review should include, but not be

limited to, an examination of:

(1) The methods DLA uses to provide visibility of available excess property

and equipment to interested agencies and provide access for physical inspection of

the property and equipment;

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(2) Instances in which Department of Defense property and equipment that

have been declared excess, and that are desirable for use by other Federal agencies

and by State or local governments, are transferred to a commercial vendor for sale;

(3) The process DLA uses to code property and equipment for disposition,

particularly instances in which property and equipment that have been coded for

return to military units are transferred to a commercial vendor for sale; and

(4) The costs that DLA incurs by destroying appropriately coded property

and equipment that otherwise could be demilitarized and made available to

interested Federal agencies or State and local governments.

(5) Instances where the Department did not receive fair market value for

excess or surplus personal property and equipment transferred to a commercial

vendor for sale.

The Comptroller General should provide a preliminary briefing to the

congressional defense committees by March 15, 2015, with a final report or reports

to follow.

Waste Disposal Technologies in Contingency Operations

The committee notes that the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal

Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84) required the Secretary of Defense to prescribe

regulations prohibiting the disposal of covered waste in open-air burn pits during

contingency operations, except when no alternative disposal method is feasible. The

committee further notes that the Report to Congress on the Use of Open-Air Burn

Pits by the United States Armed Forces, submitted on May 12, 2010, pursuant to

Public Law 111-84, stated that “The introduction of incinerators, plus other thermal

(to include waste-to-energy) and non-thermal waste disposal options, are intended

to eventually displace the use of burn pits." The report concluded, “DoD must

continue to explore viable technical solutions for waste reduction and waste disposal

in all categories—solid, medical, and hazardous—and then make such solutions

available through easily acquired commercial or DoD provided equipment.” To that

end, the committee is aware that the final burn pit that was being operated in

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in compliance with Department of Defense and

U.S. Central Command policies, as required by Public Law 111-84, was closed in

April 2014. Remaining U.S. locations within Afghanistan utilize a combination of

landfills, incinerators, and removal of waste by local nationals.

The committee is also aware that the Special Inspector General for

Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has observed problems associated with

incinerators that have been installed in Afghanistan. Such problems include poor

construction, planning and design, and coordination between contracts for

constructing the incinerators and for operating and maintaining them. The

committee understands that the Department of Defense is assessing commercial

incinerator and other waste-disposal technologies to determine the feasibility for

use at bases of varying size, maturity, and duration. Therefore, the committee

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directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics to

provide a briefing for the House Committee on Armed Services not later than March

2, 2015, on the lessons learned related to waste-disposal methods in contingency

operations and provide an update on the Department’s assessment of waste-

disposal technologies, to include those that would provide an efficient, reliable and

deployable capability that adheres to electrical and construction standards that

ensure life, safety, and health of U.S. personnel.



OTHER MATTERS

Department of Defense Installation Security

The committee is aware that the Department of Defense conducted internal

and independent reviews of the security programs, policies, and procedures

regarding security at military installations following the tragic shooting at the

Washington Navy Yard. The committee notes that while these reviews include

findings and recommendations related to the physical access control process,

physical security infrastructure capabilities, and force protection, the Secretary of

Defense’s memorandum dated March 18, 2014, only approved the implementation of

four recommendations, specifically to “implement continued evaluation”, “establish

a DOD [Department of Defense] Insider Threat Management Analysis Center,”

“centralize authority, accountability, and programmatic integration under a single

Principal Staff Assistant,” and “resource and expedite deployment of the Identity

Management Enterprise Services Architecture.”

While the committee believes these are important steps to improve the

security of military installations, the committee is concerned that not enough

emphasis has been placed on improving the programs, policies, procedures, and

infrastructure supporting the physical security of installations. Therefore, the

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House

Committee on Armed Services by December 31, 2014, that addresses the following:

(1) An update on the Defense Installation Access Controls Joint Capability

Technology Demonstration, and whether an opportunity exists to leverage

commercially available tools into its architecture;

(2) The frequency of installation anti-terrorism plans and local

vulnerability assessments, and the process for mitigating or accepting identified

risks;

(3) Trends or identified shortfalls in equipment, personnel, training, or

infrastructure that directly support the physical security of military facilities and

installations and have been validated by Joint Staff Integrated Vulnerability

Assessments;

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(4) Any changes that may be necessary to the physical security and anti-

terrorism/force protection policies and procedures for vehicles and personnel

entering military installations and facilities; and

(5) Any authority gaps that may require legislation to strengthen the

physical security of military installations and facilities.

Reconstitution of Air Force Weapons Storage Areas

The committee notes that the Air Force has completed the report

"Reconstituting Air Force Weapons Storage Areas" as requested in the committee

report (S. Rept. 113-44) accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for

Fiscal Year 2014. In its report, the Air Force acknowledged that it currently does

not have a funded project to reconstitute a second Weapons Storage Area (WSA) for

Air-Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCMs). Additionally, the report states that the Air

Force's WSA modernization plan, the WSA Recapitalization Corporate Initiative, is

in the preliminary stages, and indicates that it should be finalized in time to be

programmed in fiscal year 2016.

The committee is disappointed that the report did not include an analysis of

the requirements and costs of reconstituting a second nuclear WSA capability for

ALCMs and the potential benefits or savings of shortening the recapitalization

timeframe as requested in S. Rept. 113-44. Therefore, the committee directs the

Secretary of the Air Force to include the following information in the finalized plan

for the WSA Recapitalization Corporate Initiative:

(1) A business-case analysis of the requirements and costs for reconstituting

a second WSA for ALCMs;

(2) An analysis of potential cost-savings and benefits achieved through a

shortened recapitalization timeframe;

(3) An analysis of potential cost-saving and benefits of advances in physical

and security surveillance technologies; and

(4) A validation of requirements.

U.S. Transportation Command Report on Operational and Tactical Control of All

Department of Defense Executive Airlift Aircraft

The committee notes that the Commander, U.S. Transportation Command

(CUSTC) is the distribution process owner for the Department of Defense.

However, CUSTC is responsible for the operational tasking, scheduling, and tactical

control of only Department of the Air Force executive airlift and special airlift

mission (EA/SAM) aircraft. The committee notes that Department of the Navy and

the Department of the Army EA/SAM aircraft are excluded from CUSTC's control,

and are not apportioned or allocated to meet CUSTC EA/SAM airlift requirements

or airlift requirements of any other organization other than the service that owns

and operates the EA/SAM aircraft. The committee believes this is an inefficient

concept of operations in meeting EA/SAM airlift requirements of the Department of

Defense.

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Therefore, the committee directs the Commander, U.S. Transportation

Command to provide a report to the congressional defense committees not later

than February 2, 2015, that assesses the feasibility, capability, viability,

effectiveness, and efficiency of the CUSTC assuming the role and responsibility of

operational tasking, scheduling, and tactical control of all Department of Defense

EA/SAM aircraft to meet EA/SAM airlift requirements of the Department of

Defense.


TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION


Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility

The committee notes that in January 2014, approximately 27,000 gallons of

fuel leaked from a tank in the Red Hill underground fuel storage facility. The

underground storage facility was constructed in the early 1940s and contains 20

fuel tanks that are buried beneath 100 feet of volcanic rock.

The committee further notes that the budget request included $52.9 million

in investments to replace two fuel tanks and upgrade the fire suppression and

ventilation system supporting the Red Hill underground fuel storage facility. The

committee believes that the Red Hill facility will continue to play an important

supporting role for the U.S. rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region. Therefore, the

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House

Committee on Armed Services not later than October 1, 2014, on the long-term

infrastructure improvements that may be necessary to support the continued safe

and secure operation of the Red Hill underground fuel storage facility.

TITLE XXVII—BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACTIVITIES


Base Closure and Realignment Disposal Assessment

The committee notes that the Department of Defense has requested

authority to conduct another round of defense base closures and realignment

(BRAC) in 2017. BRAC is often cited as a means of saving significant defense

dollars in a time of declining budgets. The committee is concerned that efficiencies

associated with the BRAC process are offset with the inability to quickly dispose of

excess property and the potential lack of overall savings to the federal government.

For example, there are numerous instances where the Department of Defense

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conveyed excess property to other Federal agencies and the overall Government

may not have saved money.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a

report to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2015, as to the overall

effectiveness of the property disposal process. The report should specifically assess

each prior BRAC round (1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, and 2005), by military department,

and provide the following:

(1) A listing, by acre, of property disposed to: other Federal agencies; state

and local agencies; non-profit entities; and the private sector;

(2) A list of remaining acreage to be disposed;

(3) An assessment of land sale revenues realized from prior property

disposal actions;

(4) An assessment of environmental expenditures and caretaker services

expended; and

(5) An assessment of remaining environmental remediation costs to

complete and associated caretaker services anticipated during the environmental

remediation.

Joint Base Closure and Realignment Recommendations

At the request of the committee, the Government Accountability Office has

issued reports on the status of Department of Defense’s joint basing initiative.

However, the committee remains concerned that efforts to implement Base Closure

and Realignment (BRAC) 2005 recommendations that required the military services

to merge or consolidate functions to become more joint were not effectively

implemented, obviating certain cost saving opportunities. Therefore, the committee

directs the Comptroller General of the United States to submit a report to the

congressional defense committees by March 1, 2015, on the status of Department of

Defense actions to implement its BRAC 2005 recommendations that meet these

goals of reducing infrastructure and promoting “jointness.” The report should

address the following questions:

(1) To what extent has the Department of Defense identified benefits, cost

savings, and/or cost avoidances resulting from implementing these

recommendations?

(2) To what extent has the Department achieved enhancements to joint

operations from establishment of joint centers of excellence or joint training

activities or achieved other operational efficiencies from such consolidations?

(3) What challenges has the Department experienced in implementing

these initiatives and to what extent has the Department of Defense resolved these

challenges?

Property Disposal Methods

The committee seeks a greater understanding of the Department of

Defense's implementation of homeless assistance, pursuant to the McKinney-Vento

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Homeless Assistance Act (Public Law 100-77), via property disposal actions that the

Department of Defense completes through the Base Realignment and Closure Act of

1990 (Public Law 101-510), as amended. Therefore, the committee directs the

Comptroller General of the United States to submit a report to the congressional

defense committees by March 1, 2015, on the findings of a review of the

effectiveness of implementation of the relevant statutory provisions by the

Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Defense.


PROVISIONS


Army Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment

The committee notes that the Army has used a stationing strategy, called

Army 2020, to analyze the various options available to the Secretary of the Army to

implement a reduction in force structure. The Army 2020 process used key inputs

including a Programmatic Environmental Assessment, a military value analysis,

community listening sessions, and an analysis of other stationing factors.

Additionally, military judgment, utilizing a variety of planning and steering

committees was incorporated into the final decision to reduce specific Brigade

Combat Teams (BCTs). As a result of the Army 2020 process, the Army inactivated

12 BCTs and reorganized the remaining BCTs by adding a third maneuver

battalion to armor and infantry brigades located in the continental United States.

On February 6, 2014, the Army announced plans to implement a Supplemental

Programmatic Environmental Assessment (SPEA), to analyze the reduction of the

Active Component below 490,000 soldiers. However, the Army is proceeding with

the SPEA before fully implementing the results of Army 2020.

The committee believes it is appropriate for the Secretary of the Army to

use the results of the Army 2020 analysis as the baseline input of the SPEA.

Therefore, concurrent with the release of the draft SPEA, the committee directs the

Secretary of the Army to brief the House Committee on Armed Services by

September 1, 2014, on the baseline for the SPEA and any deviation from the Army

2020 analysis. If the Secretary is compelled to deviate from the Army 2020

analysis, the Secretary should provide the committee an explanation of why such

deviation is appropriate.

Deployment of Secure Work Enviroments

The committee is aware of the increasing importance of protecting valuable

intellectual property and sensitive information, especially during this current cyber

environment. The committee notes that data loss prevention is critical for the long-

term sustainment of most military operations, personnel protection, and troop

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movements, particularly when information needs to be discussed in locations

outside of a fully protected Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

The committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to establish an agency-

wide strategy to create secure work environments where unclassified but sensitive

information can be shared utilizing technological advances in full spectrum Radio

Frequency (RF) monitoring and commercial off the shelf solutions for film protected

glass that protects from data loss and intrusion. In addition, the committee directs

the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to the congressional defense committees

by March 1, 2015, that: (1) details a programmatic plan to provide additional

protection from RF and Infrared (IR) for non-SCIF facilities that would be impacted

by potential intrusions; and (2) an assessment of the Unified Facilities Guide

specifications that are used to provide RF and IR protections.

Facilities Modernization Model

The committee notes that the Department of Defense’s real property

management process requires extensive oversight to maintain more than $850.0

billion in infrastructure at an annual cost of nearly $60.0 billion. As part of its

overall effort to maintain facilities, the Department of Defense is required to

modernize certain facilities to make sure that they meet current standards. To

assist in this process, the Department of Defense developed its Facilities

Modernization Model which predicts the average annual dollar amount required for

the Department to modernize its inventory of facilities on an ongoing basis.

The Facilities Modernization Model parallels the Facilities Sustainment

Model. In 2008, the Government Accountability Office reported that although the

sustainment model provides a consistent and reasonable framework for preparing

estimates of the Department of Defense’s facility sustainment funding

requirements, there were issues with some of the model’s key inputs, affecting the

reliability of the model’s estimates. As the Modernization Model should always be

used in conjunction with the Facilities Sustainment Model, the committee is

concerned that similar issues may affect the reliability of the Facilities

Modernization Model’s estimates. Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller

General of the United States to submit a report to the congressional defense

committees by March 1, 2015, on the Facilities Modernization Model to include the

following:

(1) What are the main inputs into the Facilities Modernization Model and

to what extent have the Department and the military services validated these

inputs?

(2) To what extent are the services funding facility modernization at levels

determined by the model; how are decisions made to deviate from the models’

recommendations if needed; and what is the impact if modernization funding is not

provided at the recommended levels?

High Performance Facades for Department of Defense Installations

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The committee is aware of a new blast protection technology that has been

developed which utilizes high performance materials through a secondary facade

structure to provide increased blast and ballistic protection to Department of

Defense buildings, bases, and installations. The committee notes that such

secondary facades could provide the Department increased flexibility and cost-

savings in certain situations where relocation is being considered. The committee

also notes that secondary facades could be more useful for retrofitting and

upgrading existing buildings, as well as being incorporated into the architectural

designs of new buildings. Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of

Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to provide a report to the

congressional defense committees by October 1, 2014, on recent efforts to utilize and

test high performance materials as a secondary facade structure and any

modifications to the Unified Facility Guide Specifications that would be necessary

to incorporate the assessment of this technology.

Joint Land Use Study

The committee notes that military installations are often the economic

engines that underpin and drive local economies. Direct expenditures of defense

dollars in the form of payrolls and local procurement contracts generate in turn

secondary expenditures that help support local economies. Military installations

can also affect adjacent communities in several ways, some positive (as with the

economic impacts) and some negative. Negative impacts may include noise, safety

concerns, smoke, dust, and other effects from training and military operations. In

some instances, the military attempts to moderate these negative effects through

the Joint Land Use Program.

The committee is aware of certain noise and encroachment concerns around

the U.S. Air Force Academy and Fort Carson, Colorado. The committee believes

that a Joint Land Use Study of the surrounding area would be effective to help

offset these negative consequences. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary

of Defense to provide notice to the congressional defense committees by March 1,

2015, of the Joint Land Used Studies that the Secretary has programmed and a

schedule for when the area supporting the U.S. Air Force Academy/Fort Carson is

expected to begin a Joint Land Use Study.

Public-Private Family Housing on Guam

The committee recognizes that the Department of the Navy recently

released a draft supplemental Environmental Impact Statement regarding the

development of a main cantonment area and firing range for U.S. Marines

realigning from Okinawa, Japan, to Guam. Further, the committee recognizes that

the Distributed Laydown differs significantly from previous realignment plans, as it

depends on a more heavily rotational force on Guam than a permanent

headquarters presence. Under the renegotiated agreement with the Government of

Japan to support the Distributed Laydown, the committee understands that the

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Government of Japan will no longer provide nearly $3.0 billion in special purpose

entity (SPE) funds. According to plans and briefings from the Department, a SPE is

essentially a public-private venture (PPV) for military family housing and certain

utility improvements.

Despite the changes to the plans for the realignment of U.S. Marines, the

committee recognizes that additional military forces are also realigning to Guam as

part of the Asia-Pacific rebalance. In particular, the Navy announced the stationing

of a fourth Los Angeles class fast-attack submarine in Guam, and the Air Force

continues a Red Horse and Contingency Response Group beddown at Andersen Air

Force Base. These additional forces, along with other potential military personnel

increases, will challenge the current inventory of military family housing on Guam.

The committee has been supportive of PPV endeavors in other U.S. locations and

recognizes the potential long-term cost savings coupled with improvements to

quality of life matters for service members and their families.

As such, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a report

to the congressional defense committees by April 1, 2015, on the feasibility of

utilizing public-private housing ventures on Guam and any factors that might

inhibit establishment of such a public-private housing venture. The report should

also assess the current backlog and projected backlog in the Future Years Defense

Program as to shortfalls in family housing, by service, and the measures that the

Secretary has programmed to address these shortfalls.

Real Property Management

The committee is concerned about the Department of Defense's

management of real property resources. In an era of declining resources, the

committee is concerned by decisions made by the Department of Defense to retain

underutilized real property. The committee is supportive of real property

authorities that provide the Secretary concerned the authority to outlease non-

excess properties, but believes that there are instances where the Department has

not fully utilized these authorities to manage its real property assets. For example,

the committee notes that the Secretary of the Air Force is responsible for Keesler

Air Force Base and certain noncontiguous properties in the area. A former base

housing area called Harrison Court was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and the 40

acre parcel remains vacant 9 years since Hurricane Katrina. The committee notes

that the Air Force continues to expend funds to maintain the vacant property while

the local community expresses interest in developing the property for economic or

public use purposes. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force

to assess the value of certain noncontiguous properties in the Keesler Air Force

Base area and to provide a report to the congressional defense committees by March

1, 2015, that determines whether there remains a continued requirement for the Air

Force to maintain these properties, the feasibility of an enhanced use lease, or the

Secretary’s intent to initiate excess proceeding for these properties.

Type I and Type III Retro-Reflective Glass Beads

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As requested in the committee report (H. Rept. 113-102) accompanying the

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, the committee notes that

the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics submitted

the report, “Analysis of Type I and Type III Retro-Reflective Glass Beads” to the

congressional defense committees on April 16, 2014. In its report, the Department

of Defense stated that “Type III glass beads provide a modest increase in visibility

compared with Type I beads but this benefit is short-lived and costly. Although the

Department does not preclude the use of Type III beads, we find Type I glass beads

to be a satisfactory and cost-effective solution for our airport pavement marking

requirements.” The committee also notes that another report entitled, “Airfield

Marking Durability Study” was prepared on March 12, 2014, by Sightline, LC, that

found “based on reflectivity data recorded at 13 airports across the United States,

including military and commercial, Type III glass beads provide higher levels of

retro-reflectivity initially and over time, resulting in lower maintenance costs.” The

committee notes that the Department of Defense was likely unable to consider the

findings of the report by Sightline, LC when it was preparing its report to the

congressional defense committees.

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for

Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to assess the Sightline, LC report and

information associated with Type III glass beads and determine whether this

additional information was incorporated into its report, “Analysis of Type I and

Type III Retro-Reflective Glass Beads” submitted on April 16, 2014. If the

Sightline, LC report was not considered, the committee directs the Under Secretary

to prepare an addendum to their previous report and submit it to the congressional

defense committees by December 31, 2014, and use the Sightline, LC report, and

any other new information available, to assess the value associated with

incorporating Type III beads into the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications.

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