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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 664 

To require certain reports relating to defense access roads, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 31, 2023 

Mr. GARAMENDI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined 

by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 

within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To require certain reports relating to defense access roads, 

and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Defense Access Roads 

5 Improvement Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD PROGRAM ENHANCE2 MENTS TO ADDRESS TRANSPORTATION IN3 FRASTRUCTURE IN VICINITY OF MILITARY 

4 INSTALLATIONS. 

5 Section 2816 of the National Defense Authorization 

6 Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112–81) is amend7 ed— 

8 (1) in subsection (b)— 

9 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘this 

10 Act’’ and inserting ‘‘the Defense Access Roads 

11 Improvement Act’’; and 

12 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘this 

13 Act’’ and inserting ‘‘the Defense Access Roads 

14 Improvement Act’’; and 

15 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub16 sections: 

17 ‘‘(d) PETITION FOR CERTIFICATION OF ROADS AS

18 DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS.— 

19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than October 1, 

20 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall establish a for21 mal mechanism under which— 

22 ‘‘(A) a State, county, or municipality may 

23 petition the Secretary to certify roads as de24 fense access roads under section 210 of title 23, 

25 United States Code; and 


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1 ‘‘(B) the Secretary shall respond, in writ2 ing, to any such petition. 

3 ‘‘(2) STATE DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 

4 term ‘State’ means any of the several States, the 

5 District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the 

6 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 

7 the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United 

8 States Virgin Islands. 

9 ‘‘(e) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—The 

10 Secretary of Defense shall maintain and update regularly 

11 on an appropriate website of the Federal Government, a 

12 list of all roads certified as important to the national de13 fense by the Secretary or by such other official as the 

14 President may designate. Such website shall include, for 

15 each such road, each of the following: 

16 ‘‘(1) The military installation (as such term is 

17 defined in section 2687(g)(1) of title 10, United 

18 States Code) that is in closest proximity to the road. 

19 ‘‘(2) The date on which the road was so cer20 tified. 

21 ‘‘(3) Any fiscal year for which the President 

22 transmitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 

23 31, United States Code, a budget request that in24 cluded an amount for such road. 


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1 ‘‘(4) Any fiscal year for which Congress appro2 priated an amount for such road. 

3 ‘‘(f) TREATMENT OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.— 

4 Nothing in subsection (d) or (e) shall be construed as a 

5 requirement for the Secretary of Defense to make publicly 

6 available any classified information.’’. 

7 SEC. 3. REPORT ON DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS. 

8 Section 2814(b) of the Duncan Hunter National De9 fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 

10 110–417) is amended— 

11 (1) by striking ‘‘April 1, 2009’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘one year after the date of the enactment of the De13 fense Access Roads Improvement Act’’; and 

14 (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 

15 following: ‘‘and name any road that the commander 

16 of a military installation (as such term is defined in 

17 section 2687(g)(1) of title 10, United States Code) 

18 or the Secretary of a military department has rec19 ommended that the Secretary of Defense certify as 

20 a defense access road during the period beginning on 

21 April 1, 2009, and ending on the date of the enact22 ment of the Defense Roads Improvement Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 4. IMPROVEMENT OF DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS PRO2 GRAM. 

3 Section 210 of title 23, United States Code, is 

4 amended— 

5 (1) in subsection (a)(1)— 

6 (A) in subparagraph (A)— 

7 (i) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘or mili8 tary installations’’ after ‘‘reservations’’; 

9 and 

10 (ii) in clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘or 

11 commercial shipyards’’ after ‘‘sea ports’’; 

12 (B) in subparagraph (C)— 

13 (i) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘or mili14 tary installations’’ after ‘‘reservations’’; 

15 and 

16 (ii) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘or 

17 commercial shipyards’’ after ‘‘sea ports’’; 

18 (2) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘section 112’’ 

19 and inserting ‘‘sections 112, 113, and 313’’; 

20 (3) in subsection (i), by inserting ‘‘, or commer21 cial shipyard’’ after ‘‘sea port’’; and 

22 (4) by adding at the end the following new sub23 section: 

24 ‘‘(j) MILITARY INSTALLATION DEFINED.—In this 

25 section, the term ‘military installation’ has the meaning 


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1 given that term in section 2801 of title 10, United States 

2 Code.’’. 

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