Amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization of 
appropriations shall remain available until expended. 
(e) TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER.—The Secretary shall 
review impediments to the transition of new unexploded 
ordnance detection instrument technologies to regular op-
eration in remediation programs and the transfer of such 
technologies to private companies involved in the detection 
of unexploded ordnance. The Secretary shall conduct the 
review in consultation with appropriate private companies 
and Federal contracting agencies and submit, not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
a report to the appropriate congressional committees de-
scribing efforts to improve the transfer of such technology. 
SEC. 6. SINGLE MUNITIONS RESPONSE PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM MANAGER.—Subsection (k) of section 
2701 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(k) UXO PROGRAM MANAGER.—(1) The Secretary 
of Defense shall establish a program manager who shall 
serve as the single point of contact in the Department of 
Defense for policy and budgeting issues involving the char-
acterization, remediation, research and management of 
military munitions response at defense sites (as defined 
in section 2710 of this title). 
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‘‘(2) The program manager shall be the single point 
of contact for military departments and defense agencies 
with munitions response responsibilities. The program 
manager shall report to the Assistant Deputy Under Sec-
retary of Defense (Environment, Safety, and Occupational 
Health). 
‘‘(3) The program manager shall establish an inde-
pendent advisory and review panel that may include rep-
resentatives of the National Academy of Sciences, non-
governmental organizations with expertise regarding 
unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, or 
munitions constituents, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, States (as defined in section 2710 of this title), 
and tribal governments. The panel shall report annually 
to Congress on progress made by the Department of De-
fense to address unexploded ordnance, discarded military 
munitions, or munitions constituents at defense sites and 
make such recommendations as the panel considers appro-
priate. 
‘‘(4) The program manager shall be responsible for 
the execution of the funds appropriated with regard to the 
program element established pursuant to section 2703(b) 
of this title and for carrying out the program element for 
ordnance remediation.’’. 
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(b) MILITARY MUNITIONS RESPONSE ACCOUNT.— 
Section 2703 of such title is amended— 
(1) by inserting at the end of subsection (a) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) An account to be known as the ‘Military 
Munitions Response Account’.’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM ELEMENT FOR ORDNANCE REMEDI-
ATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish a pro-
gram element for remediation of unexploded ordnance (as 
defined in section 101(e)(5) of this title) and discarded 
military munitions and munitions constituents (as defined 
in section 2710(e) of this title) within the account estab-
lished under subsection (a)(6).’’. 
SEC. 7. INVENTORY. 
Section 2710 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(1) The Secretary of Defense shall develop and 
maintain an inventory of defense sites that are known or 
suspected to contain unexploded ordnance, discarded mili-
tary munitions, munitions constituents, or offshore chem-
ical munitions.’’; and 
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(2) in subsection (b)(2), by adding at the end 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) The potential economic value of the site 
after transfer of the defense site from military con-
trol.’’. 
SEC. 8. PUBLIC DATABASE OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING 
UNEXPLODED 
ORDNANCE 
OR 
DISCARDED 
MILITARY MUNITIONS. 
Section 2710 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after subsection (f), as added by sec-
tion 4, the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) PUBLIC DATABASE OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING 
UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE OR DISCARDED MILITARY MU-
NITIONS.—(1) The Secretary shall establish and maintain 
a database of incidents and accidents since January 1, 
1917, in which unexploded ordnance or discarded military 
munitions have— 
‘‘(A) been discovered by a person in the United 
States in an area other than a defense site included 
in the inventory; or 
‘‘(B) caused harm or death to a person within 
the United States. 
‘‘(2) The database shall be developed from a review 
of Department of Defense and other appropriate Federal 
and State records and media reports and include details 
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of each incident and accident. The Secretary shall make 
the database available to the entities specified in sub-
section (c)(2) and the public in electronic and printed 
form.’’. 
SEC. 9. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PROCUREMENT 
AND USE OF MUNITIONS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of each 
of the military departments should— 
(1) develop methods to account for the full life- 
cycle cost of munitions, including the impact of fail-
ure rate on the cost of disposal, in procurement deci-
sions; and 
(2) undertake a review of live-fire practices for 
the purpose of reducing unexploded ordnance and 
munitions-constituent contamination without imped-
ing military readiness. 
SEC. 10. REPORT ON DEFENSE SITE CLEANUP AT MILITARY 
INSTALLATIONS 
CLOSED 
OR 
REALIGNED 
UNDER BASE CLOSURE LAW. 
(a) REPORT AND STRATEGY.—Not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall submit to Congress a report containing the 
strategy of the Department of Defense to complete the en-
vironmental remediation of all military installations ap-
proved for closure or realignment under title II of the De-
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