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Union Calendar No. 125 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2190 

[Report No. 115–184] 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Under Secretary 

for Management of the Department of Homeland Security to make 

certain improvements in managing the Department’s real property portfolio, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 27, 2017 

Mr. RUTHERFORD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Homeland Security 

JUNE 20, 2017 

Additional sponsor: Mr. MCCAUL

JUNE 20, 2017 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 27, 2017] 


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A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct 

the Under Secretary for Management of the Department 

of Homeland Security to make certain improvements in 

managing the Department’s real property portfolio, and 

for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Streamlining DHS 

5 Overhead Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. LONG TERM REAL PROPERTY STRATEGIES. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title VII of the Homeland Security 

8 Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 341 et seq.) is amended by adding 

9 at the end the following new sections: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 710. CHIEF FACILITIES AND LOGISTICS OFFICER. 

11 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is a Chief Facilities and Lo12 gistics Officer of the Department who shall report directly 

13 to the Under Secretary for Management. The Chief Facili14 ties and Logistics Officer shall be career reserved for a mem15 ber of the senior executive service. 

16 ‘‘(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Chief Facilities and Lo17 gistics Officer shall— 

18 ‘‘(1) develop policies and procedures and provide 

19 program oversight to manage real property, facilities, 

20 personal property, mobile assets, equipment, and 

21 other material resources of the Department; 

22 ‘‘(2) manage and execute, in consultation with 

23 the component heads, mission support services within 

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1 ties, and other common headquarters and field activi2 ties for the Department; and 

3 ‘‘(3) provide tactical and transactional services 

4 for the Department, including transportation, facility 

5 operations, and maintenance. 

6 ‘‘SEC. 711. LONG TERM REAL PROPERTY STRATEGIES. 

7 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 

8 ‘‘(1) FIRST STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days 

9 after the date of the enactment of this section, the 

10 Under Secretary for Management shall develop an 

11 initial 5-year regional real property strategy for the 

12 Department that covers the five fiscal years imme13 diately following such date of enactment. Such strat14 egy shall be geographically organized, as designated 

15 by the Under Secretary for Management. 

16 ‘‘(2) SECOND STRATEGY.—Not later than the 

17 first day of the fourth fiscal year covered by the first 

18 strategy under paragraph (1), the Under Secretary 

19 for Management shall develop a second 5-year real 

20 property strategy for the Department that covers the 

21 five fiscal years immediately following the conclusion 

22 of such first strategy. 

23 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) INITIAL STRATEGY.—The initial 5-year 

2 strategy developed in accordance with paragraph (1) 

3 of subsection (a) shall— 

4 ‘‘(A) identify opportunities to consolidate 

5 real property, optimize the usage of Federal as6 sets, and decrease the number of commercial 

7 leases and square footage within the Depart8 ment’s real property portfolio; 

9 ‘‘(B) provide alternate housing and consoli10 dation plans to increase efficiency through joint 

11 use of Department spaces while decreasing the 

12 reliance on and cost of leased space; 

13 ‘‘(C) concentrate on geographical areas with 

14 a significant Department presence, as identified 

15 by the Under Secretary for Management; 

16 ‘‘(D) examine the establishment of central 

17 Department locations in each such geographical 

18 region and the co-location of Department compo19 nents based on the mission sets and responsibil20 ities of such components; 

21 ‘‘(E) identify opportunities to reduce over22 head costs through co-location or consolidation of 

23 real property interests or mission support activi24 ties, such as shared mail screening and proc25 essing, centralized transportation and shuttle 


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1 services, regional transit benefit programs, com2 mon contracting for custodial and other services, 

3 and leveraging strategic sourcing contracts and 

4 sharing of specialized facilities, such as training 

5 facilities and resources; 

6 ‘‘(F) manage the current Department Work7 space Standard for Office Space in accordance 

8 with the Department office workspace design 

9 process to develop the most efficient and effective 

10 spaces within the workspace standard net usable 

11 square foot ranges for all leased for office space 

12 entered into on or after the date of the enactment 

13 of this section, including the renewal of any 

14 leases for office space existing as of such date; 

15 ‘‘(G) define, based on square footage, what 

16 constitutes a major real property acquisition; 

17 ‘‘(H) prioritize actions to be taken to im18 prove the operations and management of the De19 partment’s real property inventory, based on 

20 life-cycle cost estimations, in consultation with 

21 component heads; and 

22 ‘‘(I) include any additional information de23 termined appropriate or relevant by the Under 

24 Secretary for Management. 


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1 ‘‘(2) SECOND STRATEGY.—The second 5-year 

2 strategy developed in accordance with paragraph (2) 

3 of subsection (a) shall include information required in 

4 subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (E), (F), (G), (H), and 

5 (I) of paragraph (1) and information on the effective6 ness of implementation efforts pursuant to the De7 partment-wide policy required in accordance with 

8 subsection (c), including— 

9 ‘‘(A) the impact of such implementation on 

10 departmental operations and costs; and 

11 ‘‘(B) the degree to which the Department es12 tablished central Department locations and co-lo13 cated Department components pursuant to the 

14 results of the examination required by subpara15 graph (D) of paragraph (1). 

16 ‘‘(c) IMPLEMENTATION POLICIES.—Not later than 90 

17 days after the development of each of the regional real prop18 erty strategies developed in accordance with subsection (a), 

19 the Under Secretary for Management shall develop or up20 date, as applicable, a Department-wide policy imple21 menting such strategies. 

22 ‘‘(d) CERTIFICATIONS.—Subject to subsection (g)(3), 

23 the implementation policies developed pursuant to sub24 section (c) shall require component heads to certify to the 

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1 plied with the requirements specified in subsection (b) before 

2 making any major real property acquisition or rec3 ommendation, as defined by the Under Secretary, including 

4 entering into any new leases, renewing any existing leases, 

5 or agreeing to extend or newly occupy any Federal space 

6 or new construction, in accordance with the applicable re7 gional real property strategy developed in accordance with 

8 subsection (a). 

9 ‘‘(e) UNDERUTILIZED SPACE.— 

10 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The implementing policies 

11 developed pursuant to subsection (c) shall require 

12 component heads, acting through regional property 

13 managers under subsection (f), to annually report to 

14 the Under Secretary for Management on underutilized 

15 space and identify space that may be made available 

16 for use, as applicable, by other components or Federal 

17 or State agencies through reimbursable or other agree18 ments. 

19 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The Under Secretary for 

20 Management may grant an exception to the work21 space standard net usable square foot ranges described 

22 in subsection (b)(6) for specific office locations at 

23 which a reduction or elimination of otherwise under24 utilized space would negatively impact a component’s 


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1 ability to execute its mission based on readiness per2 formance measures. 

3 ‘‘(3) UNDERUTILIZED SPACE DEFINED.—In this 

4 subsection, the term ‘underutilized space’ means any 

5 space with respect to which utilization is greater than 

6 the workplace standard net usable square foot ranges 

7 pursuant to subsection (b)(6). 

8 ‘‘(f) COMPONENT RESPONSIBILITIES.— 

9 ‘‘(1) REGIONAL PROPERTY MANAGERS.—Each 

10 component head shall identify a senior career em11 ployee of each such component for each geographic re12 gion included in the regional real property strategies 

13 developed in accordance with subsection (a) to serve 

14 as each such component’s regional property manager. 

15 Each such regional property manager shall serve as 

16 a single point of contact for Department headquarters 

17 and other Department components for all real prop18 erty matters relating to each such component within 

19 the region in which each such component is located, 

20 and provide data and any other support necessary for 

21 the DHS Regional Mission Support Coordinator stra22 tegic asset and portfolio planning and execution. 

23 ‘‘(2) DATA.—Regional property managers under 

24 paragraph (1) shall provide annually to the Under 

25 Secretary for Management, via a standardized and 


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1 centralized system, data on each component’s real 

2 property holdings, as specified by the Undersecretary 

3 for Management, including relating to underutilized 

4 space under subsection (e) (as such term is defined in 

5 such subsection), total square footage leased, annual 

6 cost, and total number of staff, for each geographic re7 gion included in the regional real property strategies 

8 developed in accordance with subsection (a). 

9 ‘‘(g) ONGOING OVERSIGHT.— 

10 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Under Secretary for 

11 Management shall monitor components’ adherence to 

12 the regional real property strategies developed in ac13 cordance with subsection (a) and the implementation 

14 policies developed pursuant to subsection (c). 

15 ‘‘(2) ANNUAL REVIEW.—The Under Secretary for 

16 Management shall annually review the data sub17 mitted pursuant to subsection (f)(2) to ensure all un18 derutilized space (as such term is defined in sub19 section (e)) is properly identified. 

20 ‘‘(3) CERTIFICATION REVIEW.—The Under Sec21 retary for Management shall review, and if appro22 priate, approve, component certifications under sub23 section (d) before such components may make any 

24 major real property acquisition, including entering 

25 into any new leases, renewing any existing leases, or 


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1 agreeing to extend or newly occupy any Federal space 

2 or new construction, in accordance with the applica3 ble regional real property strategy developed in ac4 cordance with subsection (a). 

5 ‘‘(4) CONGRESSIONAL REPORTING.—The Under 

6 Secretary for Management shall annually provide in7 formation to the Committee on Homeland Security of 

8 the House of Representatives, the Committee on 

9 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 

10 Senate, and the Inspector General of the Department 

11 on the Department’s real property portfolio, including 

12 information relating to the following: 

13 ‘‘(A) A summary of the Department’s real 

14 property holdings in each region described in the 

15 regional strategies developed in accordance with 

16 subsection (a), and for each such property, infor17 mation including the total square footage leased, 

18 the total cost, the total number of staff at each 

19 such property, and the square foot per person 

20 utilization rate for office space (and whether or 

21 not such conforms with the workspace standard 

22 net usable square foot ranges established pursu23 ant to subsection (b)(6)). 

24 ‘‘(B) An accounting of all underutilized 

25 space (as such term is defined in subsection (e)). 


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1 ‘‘(C) An accounting of all instances in 

2 which the Department or its components consoli3 dated their real property holdings or co-located 

4 with another entity within the Department. 

5 ‘‘(D) A list of all certifications provided 

6 pursuant to subsection (d) and all such certifi7 cations approved pursuant to paragraph (3) of 

8 this subsection. 

9 ‘‘(5) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW.—Not later 

10 than 120 days after the last day of the fifth fiscal 

11 year covered in each of the initial and second regional 

12 real property strategies developed in accordance with 

13 subsection (a), the Inspector General of the Depart14 ment shall review the information submitted pursuant 

15 to paragraph (4) and issue findings regarding the ef16 fectiveness of the implementation of the Department17 wide policy and oversight efforts of the management 

18 of real property facilities, personal property, mobile 

19 assets, equipment and the Department’s other mate20 rial resources as required under this section.’’. 

21 (b) REPORTING.—The Secretary of Homeland Security 

22 shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 

23 House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 

24 Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate copies of 

25 the regional strategies developed in accordance with section 


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1 710(a) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by 

2 subsection (a) of this section) not later than 90 days after 

3 the date of the development of each such strategy. 

4 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 

5 section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 

6 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 709 

7 the following new items: 

‘‘Sec. 710. Chief Facilities and Logistics Officer. 

‘‘Sec. 711. Long term real property strategies.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 125 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2190 

[Report No. 115–184] 

A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 

poses. ment’s real property portfolio, and for other purcertain improvements in managing the Departthe Department of Homeland Security to make direct the Under Secretary for Management of 

JUNE 20, 2017 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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