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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5507 

To require the Secretary of Defense to identify areas on military installations 

and certain other properties as acceptable, unacceptable, or unassessed 

regarding their suitability for placement of geothermal, wind, solar photovoltaic, or solar thermal trough systems, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 10, 2010 

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

Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Defense to identify areas on 

military installations and certain other properties as acceptable, unacceptable, or unassessed regarding their 

suitability for placement of geothermal, wind, solar photovoltaic, or solar thermal trough systems, 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 ‘‘Department of Defense 

5 Alternative Energy Mapping Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF LOCATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE 

2 ENERGY SYSTEMS ON MILITARY INSTALLA3 TIONS AND CERTAIN OTHER LANDS. 

4 (a) MAPS REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense 

5 shall prepare, in a timely manner, maps of military instal6 lations and eligible adjacent property that classify loca7 tions on the installations and property as acceptable, unac8 ceptable, or unassessed regarding their suitability for the 

9 placement of geothermal, wind, solar photovoltaic, or solar 

10 thermal trough systems. 

11 (b) COOPERATION WITH INDUSTRY.—The Secretary 

12 of Defense may enter into agreements with entities in13 volved in the production or installation of alternative en14 ergy systems described in subsection (a) to utilize their 

15 expertise and to share the costs of preparing the maps 

16 under subsection (a). 

17 (c) DISSEMINATION OF MAPS.—The Secretary of De18 fense shall disseminate the map prepared under subsection 

19 (a) for a military installation and its adjoining property 

20 to the following: 

21 (1) Congress. 

22 (2) The State in which the installation is lo23 cated. 

24 (3) Local governments having jurisdiction over 

25 eligible adjacent land that is depicted on the map. 


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1 (4) The owner or owners of any private prop2 erty adjacent to the military installation that is de3 picted on the map. 

4 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 (1) MILITARY INSTALLATION.—The term ‘‘mili6 tary installation’’ has the meaning given that term 

7 in 2687(e) of title 10, United States Code. 

8 (2) ELIGIBLE ADJACENT PROPERTY.—The term 

9 ‘‘eligible adjacent property’’ means— 

10 (A) real property of the United States that 

11 is adjacent to a military installation; 

12 (B) real property of a State or local gov13 ernment that is adjacent to a military installa14 tion; and 

15 (C) private property that is adjacent to a 

16 military installation, but only if the owner of 

17 the private property consents to the inclusion of 

18 the property on the map. 

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