Defense Access Roads Improvement Act

Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:  <p><b>Defense Access Roads Improvement Act</b></p> <p>This bill updates provisions and requirements related to the Defense Access Roads Program, which authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD) to pay for construction and maintenance of defense access roads.</p> <p> DOD must establish a formal mechanism under which a state, county, or municipality may petition to certify roads as defense access roads, and DOD must respond in writing.</p> <p>Additionally, DOD must maintain and regularly update on a federal website a list of all defense access roads that includes certain unclassified information about each road (e.g., the military installation that is closest to the road).</p> <p>The bill also includes military installations and commercial shipyards as sites that utilize defense access roads, thereby authorizing the use of program funds for the maintenance or construction of such roads. Further, the bill requires that defense access road projects abide by certain wage and materials requirements.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 664 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 664

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


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                    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

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                                 A BILL


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

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Access Roads Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD PROGRAM ENHANCEMENTS TO ADDRESS 
              TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN VICINITY OF MILITARY 
              INSTALLATIONS.

    Section 2816 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2012 (Public Law 112-81) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``this Act'' and 
                inserting ``the Defense Access Roads Improvement Act''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``this Act'' and 
                inserting ``the Defense Access Roads Improvement Act''; 
                and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(d) Petition for Certification of Roads as Defense Access 
Roads.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than October 1, 2024, the 
        Secretary of Defense shall establish a formal mechanism under 
        which--
                    ``(A) a State, county, or municipality may petition 
                the Secretary to certify roads as defense access roads 
                under section 210 of title 23, United States Code; and
                    ``(B) the Secretary shall respond, in writing, to 
                any such petition.
            ``(2) State defined.--In this subsection, the term `State' 
        means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, 
        American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
        Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States 
        Virgin Islands.
    ``(e) Public Availability of Information.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall maintain and update regularly on an appropriate website of the 
Federal Government, a list of all roads certified as important to the 
national defense by the Secretary or by such other official as the 
President may designate. Such website shall include, for each such 
road, each of the following:
            ``(1) The military installation (as such term is defined in 
        section 2687(g)(1) of title 10, United States Code) that is in 
        closest proximity to the road.
            ``(2) The date on which the road was so certified.
            ``(3) Any fiscal year for which the President transmitted 
        to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, 
        a budget request that included an amount for such road.
            ``(4) Any fiscal year for which Congress appropriated an 
        amount for such road.
    ``(f) Treatment of Classified Information.--Nothing in subsection 
(d) or (e) shall be construed as a requirement for the Secretary of 
Defense to make publicly available any classified information.''.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS.

    Section 2814(b) of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``April 1, 2009'' and inserting ``one year 
        after the date of the enactment of the Defense Access Roads 
        Improvement Act''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``and name any road that the commander of a military 
        installation (as such term is defined in section 2687(g)(1) of 
        title 10, United States Code) or the Secretary of a military 
        department has recommended that the Secretary of Defense 
        certify as a defense access road during the period beginning on 
        April 1, 2009, and ending on the date of the enactment of the 
        Defense Roads Improvement Act''.

SEC. 4. IMPROVEMENT OF DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS PROGRAM.

    Section 210 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by inserting ``or 
                        military installations'' after 
                        ``reservations''; and
                            (ii) in clause (iii), by inserting ``or 
                        commercial shipyards'' after ``sea ports'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (C)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by inserting ``or 
                        military installations'' after 
                        ``reservations''; and
                            (ii) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or 
                        commercial shipyards'' after ``sea ports'';
            (2) in subsection (f), by striking ``section 112'' and 
        inserting ``sections 112, 113, and 313'';
            (3) in subsection (i), by inserting ``, or commercial 
        shipyard'' after ``sea port''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Military Installation Defined.--In this section, the term 
`military installation' has the meaning given that term in section 2801 
of title 10, United States Code.''.
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