S.Amdt. 2543

SA 2543. Mr. KAINE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle D of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2857. MILITARY INSTALLATION RESILIENCE PROJECT
ACCELERATION PROGRAM.

(a) Establishment of Program.--Subchapter I of chapter 169
of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting
after section 2815a the following new section:

``Sec. 2815b. Military Installation Resilience Project
Acceleration Program

``(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Office of
the Secretary of Defense a program to be known as the
`Military Installation Resilience Project Acceleration
Program' (in this section referred to as the `Program').
``(b) Purpose.--The Program shall be conducted for the
purpose of accelerating the planning for and implementation
of projects and other actions on or related to a military
installation that are--
``(1) addressed in the military installation resilience
component of installation master plans developed in
accordance with section 2864(c) of this title;
``(2) identified as current or potential military
installation resilience projects under section 2815 of this
title;
``(3) identified as current or potential projects for the
improvement of stormwater management in accordance with
section 2815a of this title;
``(4) identified as suitable to preserve or enhance the
climate resilience of defense access roads in accordance with
section 210 of title 23;
``(5) identified as related to military installation
resilience in a current or potential intergovernmental
support agreement under section 2679 of this title;
``(6) identified as related to establishing and
supporting--
``(A) resilience coordinators for sentinel landscapes
designated in accordance with section 2693 of this title; or
``(B) Interagency Regional Coordinators established under
section 2872 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263; 10 U.S.C. 2864 note);
or
``(7) identified as related to conducting flood risk
management studies or projects on military installations or
operational ranges.
``(c) Identification of Projects and Other Actions.--The
Secretary of Defense shall establish a merit-based process
for identifying projects and other actions suitable for
funding through the Program.
``(d) Transfer Authority.--(1) To accomplish the purpose
under subsection (b), amounts appropriated for the Program
for a

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fiscal year may be transferred by the Secretary of Defense
pursuant to transfer authority available to the Secretary
under the provisions of an authorization Act or
appropriations Act for that fiscal year to any of the
following accounts of the Department of Defense:
``(A) Operation and maintenance accounts.
``(B) Research, development, test, and evaluation accounts.
``(C) Military construction accounts.
``(D) Minor military construction accounts.
``(2) An amount transferred under paragraph (1) shall be--
``(A) merged with and deemed to increase the amount
authorized and appropriated for the account to which the
amount was transferred by an amount equal to the amount so
transferred; and
``(B) available for the same purposes as amounts in the
account to which transferred.
``(e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall
be construed to require or enable any official of the
Department of Defense to provide funding under this section
pursuant to a community project funding request, as defined
in the Rules of the House of Representatives, or a
congressionally directed spending item, as defined in the
Standing Rules of the Senate.
``(f) Annual Reports.--(1) Not later than March 1 of each
year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees
on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of
Representatives a report on the Program.
``(2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall include the
following:
``(A) A description of the nature and status of the
projects or actions undertaken in whole or part with funds
appropriated for the Program.
``(B) An assessment of the effectiveness of such projects
or actions as part of a long-term strategy--
``(i) to ensure the resilience of military installations,
key supporting civilian infrastructure, and defense access
roads; and
``(ii) to improve the management of stormwater on or
related to a military installation.
``(C) An evaluation of the methodology and criteria used to
select and to establish priorities for projects and actions
funded in whole or part with funds appropriated for the
Program.
``(D) Such recommendations as the Secretary of Defense
considers appropriate for legislative or administrative
action to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the
Program.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the
beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 2815a the following new item:

``2815b. Military Installation Resilience Project Acceleration
Program.''.
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