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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 132 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Department of Defense request 

for domestic Base Realignment and Closure authority in 2015 and 2017 

is neither affordable nor feasible as of the date of agreement to this 

resolution and that the Department of Defense must further analyze 

the capability to consolidate excess overseas infrastructure and increase 

efficiencies by relocating missions from overseas to domestic installations 

prior to requesting domestic Base Realignment and Closure authority. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 8, 2013 

Mr. BEGICH (for himself, Mr. TESTER, and Mr. BAUCUS) submitted the 

following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Department 

of Defense request for domestic Base Realignment and 

Closure authority in 2015 and 2017 is neither affordable 

nor feasible as of the date of agreement to this resolution 

and that the Department of Defense must further analyze the capability to consolidate excess overseas infrastructure and increase efficiencies by relocating missions 

from overseas to domestic installations prior to requesting domestic Base Realignment and Closure authority. 

Whereas the Department of Defense claims a 24-percent surplus in domestic military infrastructure and has reVerDate Mar 15 2010 02:47 May 09, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR132.IS SR132

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quested domestic Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 

rounds in 2015 and 2017; 

Whereas Congress rejected a request for 2 BRAC rounds 

made by the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2013; 

Whereas the Senate Armed Services Committee noted in title 

XXIV of Senate Report 112–173 to accompany S. 3254 

of the 112th Congress, that a request by the Department 

of Defense for authority to conduct a domestic BRAC 

round must be preceded by a comprehensive evaluation of 

opportunities to obtain efficiencies through the consolidation of the overseas operations of defense agencies and 

possible relocation back to the United States; 

Whereas the Base Structure Report for fiscal year 2012 of 

the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment, found that the Department 

of Defense has 666 military sites in foreign countries, including 232 in Germany, 109 in Japan, and 85 in South 

Korea; 

Whereas the United States has developed an increased capacity to rapidly deploy around the globe, thereby reducing 

the strategic value of an overseas footprint based largely 

on Cold War geopolitics and an obsolete National Security Strategy; 

Whereas the Government Accountability Office concluded in 

a 2007 study that the 2005 BRAC round was the most 

complex and costliest ever; 

Whereas the Government Accountability Office found in a 

2012 report entitled ‘‘Military Base Realignments and 

Closures: Updated Costs and Savings Estimates from 

BRAC 2005’’ that the 2005 BRAC round far exceeded 

estimated implementation costs, growing from 


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$21,000,000,000 to $35,100,000,000, a 67-percent increase; 

Whereas the Government Accountability Office found in the 

2012 report that the estimated 20-year savings for the 

2005 BRAC round decreased by 72 percent from 

$35,600,000,000 to $9,900,000,000; 

Whereas the Government Accountability Office estimates that 

it will take until 2017 for the Department of Defense to 

recoup upfront implementation costs of BRAC 2005, 4 

years longer than the BRAC Commission estimates and 

12 years after the date of execution and initial investment; 

Whereas the Department of Defense would spend 

$2,400,000,000 in a time of fiscal austerity to execute 

the proposed BRAC round in 2015; 

Whereas the financial crisis in the United States continues to 

challenge local economies and a BRAC round would create more uncertainty and economic hardship for impacted 

communities still in the recovery process; 

Whereas Federal budget uncertainty and the fiscal challenges 

a domestic BRAC round would bring to communities renders the significant $2,400,000,000 in up-front costs neither affordable nor feasible as of the date of agreement 

to this resolution; and 

Whereas the lack of potential return on the significant investment required for a BRAC round may result in an inefficient use of taxpayer funds: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that— 

2 (1) as of the date of agreement to this resolu3 tion, the Department of Defense should not be 


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1 granted authority for the requested 2015 and 2017 

2 Base Realignment and Closure rounds; 

3 (2) before granting the authority for the re4 quested 2015 and 2017 BRAC rounds, the Depart5 ment of Defense should achieve economic efficiencies 

6 by— 

7 (A) closing and consolidating excess infra8 structure and facilities in overseas locations; 

9 and 

10 (B) reexamining relocation opportunities of 

11 overseas missions to United States military in12 stallations; and 

13 (3) the Department of Defense is unwise to re14 quest a BRAC round when the economy of the 

15 United States is struggling to recover and negatively 

16 impacted communities are fighting to put citizens 

17 back to work. 

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