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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3648 

To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense access road 

resilience, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 9, 2019 

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

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense 

access road resilience, 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 Road 

5 Enhancement Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO 

7 DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD RESILIENCE. 

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

9 amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a)(1) The 

2 Secretary’’ and all that follows through the end of 

3 paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 

4 ‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.— 

5 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—When defense access roads 

6 are certified to the Secretary as important to the na7 tional defense by the Secretary of Defense or such 

8 other official as the President may designate, the 

9 Secretary is authorized, out of the funds appro10 priated for defense access roads, to provide for— 

11 ‘‘(A) the construction and maintenance of 

12 defense access roads (including bridges, tubes, 

13 tunnels, and culverts or other hydraulic appur14 tenances on those roads) to— 

15 ‘‘(i) military reservations; 

16 ‘‘(ii) defense industry sites; 

17 ‘‘(iii) air or sea ports that are nec18 essary for or are planned to be used for 

19 the deployment or sustainment of members 

20 of the Armed Forces, equipment, or sup21 plies; or 

22 ‘‘(iv) sources of raw materials; 

23 ‘‘(B) the reconstruction or enhancement of, 

24 or improvements to, those roads to ensure the 

25 continued effective use of the roads, regardless 


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1 of current or projected increases in mean tides, 

2 recurrent flooding, or other weather-related 

3 conditions or natural disasters; and 

4 ‘‘(C) replacing existing highways and high5 way connections that are shut off from general 

6 public use by necessary closures, closures due to 

7 mean sea level fluctuation and flooding, or re8 strictions at— 

9 ‘‘(i) military reservations; 

10 ‘‘(ii) air or sea ports that are nec11 essary for or are planned to be used for 

12 the deployment or sustainment of members 

13 of the Armed Forces, equipment, or sup14 plies; or 

15 ‘‘(iii) defense industry sites.’’; 

16 (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘the construc17 tion and maintenance of’’ and inserting ‘‘construc18 tion, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, reha19 bilitation, and preservation of, or enhancements to,’’; 

20 (3) in subsection (c)— 

21 (A) by striking ‘‘him’’ and inserting ‘‘the 

22 Secretary’’; 

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1 ties for construction, maintenance, reconstruc2 tion, enhancement, improvement, and repair’’; 

3 (C) by striking ‘‘therein’’ and inserting ‘‘in 

4 those areas’’; and 

5 (D) by striking ‘‘condition for such train6 ing purposes and for repairing the damage 

7 caused to such highways by the operations of 

8 men and equipment in such training.’’ and in9 serting the following: ‘‘condition for— 

10 ‘‘(1) that training; and 

11 ‘‘(2) repairing the damage to those highways 

12 caused by— 

13 ‘‘(A) weather-related events, increases in 

14 mean high tide levels, recurrent flooding, or 

15 natural disasters; or 

16 ‘‘(B) the operations of men and equipment 

17 in such training.’’; 

18 (4) in subsection (g)— 

19 (A) by striking ‘‘he’’ and inserting ‘‘the 

20 Secretary’’; 

21 (B) by striking ‘‘construction which has 

22 been’’ and inserting ‘‘construction and other ac23 tivities’’; and 

24 (C) by striking ‘‘upon his demand’’ and in25 serting ‘‘upon demand by the Secretary’’; and 


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1 (5) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the 

2 following: 

3 ‘‘(i) REPAIR OF CERTAIN DAMAGES AND INFRA4 STRUCTURE.—The funds appropriated to carry out this 

5 section may be used to pay the cost of repairing damage 

6 caused, or any infrastructure to mitigate a risk posed, to 

7 a defense access road by recurrent or projected recurrent 

8 flooding, sea level fluctuation, a natural disaster, or any 

9 other current or projected change in applicable environ10 mental conditions, if the Secretary determines that contin11 ued access to a military installation, defense industry site, 

12 air or sea port necessary for or planned to be used for 

13 the deployment or sustainment of members of the Armed 

14 Forces, equipment, or supplies, or to a source of raw mate15 rials, has been or is projected to be impacted by those 

16 events or conditions.’’. 

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