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SEC. 2818. USE OF FORMER BOMBARDMENT AREA ON IS-
LAND OF CULEBRA, PUERTO RICO. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the statutory prohibition restricting environ-
mental cleanup of the former bombardment area on the 
island of Culebra, Puerto Rico, is a unique anomaly for 
the Department of Defense and its formerly used defense 
sites. 
(b) MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTION ON FEDERAL 
DECONTAMINATION AUTHORITY.—Section 204(c) of the 
Military Construction Authorization Act, 1974 (Public 
Law 93–166; 87 Stat. 668) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new sentence: ‘‘The first sentence of this 
subsection shall not apply to the portions of the former 
bombardment area that were identified as having regular 
public access in the Department of Defense study entitled 
‘Study Relating to the Presence of Unexploded Ordnance 
in a Portion of the Former Naval Bombardment Area of 
Culebra Island, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’ and dated 
April 20, 2012, which was prepared in accordance with 
section 2815 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Public Law 111–383; 
124 Stat. 4464).’’.
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SEC. 2819. INDEMNIFICATION OF TRANSFEREES OF PROP-
ERTY AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS CLOSED 
SINCE OCTOBER 24, 1988, THAT REMAIN 
UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE. 
Section 330(a) of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102–484; 10 U.S.C. 
2687 note) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘paragraph (4)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘paragraph (3)’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively; 
(3) in paragraph (4), as redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘paragraph (2) contributed to any such release 
or threatened release, paragraph (1)’’ and inserting 
‘‘paragraph (3) contributed to any such release or 
threatened release, paragraph (1) or (2)’’; and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing new paragraph (2): 
‘‘(2) The responsibility of the Secretary of Defense 
to hold harmless, defend, and indemnify in full certain 
persons and entities described in paragraph (3) also ap-
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plies with respect to any military installation (or portion 
thereof) that— 
‘‘(A) was closed during the period beginning on 
October 24, 1988, and ending on the date of the en-
actment of this paragraph, other than pursuant to 
a base closure law; and 
‘‘(B) remains under the jurisdiction of the De-
partment of Defense as of the date of the enactment 
of this paragraph.’’. 
Subtitle C—Provisions Related to 
Asia-Pacific Military Realignment 
SEC. 2831. REPEAL OR MODIFICATION OF CERTAIN RE-
STRICTIONS ON REALIGNMENT OF MARINE 
CORPS FORCES IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION. 
Section 2822 of the Military Construction Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (division B of Public Law 
113–66; 127 Stat. 1016) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e); 
(2) by redesignating subsections (d) and (f) as 
subsections (b) and (c), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting before subsection (b), as redes-
ignated, the following new subsection (a): 
‘‘(a) RESTRICTION ON DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC IN-
FRASTRUCTURE.—
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‘‘(1) RESTRICTION.—If the Secretary of De-
fense determines that any grant, cooperative agree-
ment, transfer of funds to another Federal agency, 
or supplement of funds available in fiscal year 2015 
under Federal programs administered by agencies 
other than the Department of Defense will result in 
the development (including repair, replacement, ren-
ovation, conversion, improvement, expansion, acqui-
sition, or construction) of public infrastructure on 
Guam, the Secretary of Defense may not carry out 
such grant, transfer, cooperative agreement, or sup-
plemental funding unless such grant, transfer, coop-
erative agreement, or supplemental funding directly 
supports an infrastructure project agreed upon in 
the March 2011 Programmatic Agreement signed by 
the Department of Defense, the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation, the Guam State Historic 
Preservation Officer, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands State Historic Preserva-
tion Officer Regarding the Military Relocation to the 
Islands of Guam and Tinian. 
‘‘(2) PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEFINED.—In 
this subsection, term ‘public infrastructure’ means 
any utility, method of transportation, item of equip-
ment, or facility under the control of a public entity
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or State or local government that is used by, or con-
structed for the benefit of, the general public.’’. 
SEC. 2832. ESTABLISHMENT OF SURFACE DANGER ZONE, 
RITIDIAN UNIT, GUAM NATIONAL WILDLIFE 
REFUGE. 
(a) AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH.—In order to accom-
modate the operation of a live-fire training range complex 
on Andersen Air Force Base-Northwest Field and the 
management of the adjacent Ritidian Unit of the Guam 
National Wildlife Refuge, the Secretary of the Navy and 
the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding the Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 
(16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.), may enter into an agreement 
providing for the establishment and operation of a surface 
danger zone which overlays the Ritidian Unit or such por-
tion thereof as the Secretaries consider necessary. 
(b) ELEMENTS OF AGREEMENT.—The agreement to 
establish a surface danger zone over all or a portion of 
the Ritidian Unit of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge 
shall include— 
(1) measures to maintain the purposes of the 
Refuge; and 
(2) as appropriate, measures, funded by the 
Secretary of the Navy from funds appropriated after 
the date of enactment of this Act and otherwise
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available to the Secretary, for the following pur-
poses: 
(A) Relocation and reconstruction of struc-
tures and facilities of the Refuge in existence as 
of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(B) Mitigation of impacts to wildlife spe-
cies present on the Refuge or to be reintroduced 
in the future in accordance with applicable 
laws. 
(C) Use of Department of Defense per-
sonnel to undertake conservation activities with-
in the Ritidian Unit normally performed by De-
partment of the Interior personnel, including 
habitat maintenance, maintaining the boundary 
fence, and conducting the brown tree snake 
eradication program. 
(D) Openings and closures of the surface 
danger zone to the public as may be necessary. 
Subtitle D—Land Conveyances 
SEC. 2841. LAND CONVEYANCE, MT. SOLEDAD VETERANS 
MEMORIAL, LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA. 
(a) CONVEYANCE AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of 
Defense may convey, without consideration, to the Mount 
Soledad Memorial Association, Inc. (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Association’’), all right, title, and interest