I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5172 
To improve the effectiveness of Department of Defense programs for the 
remediation of unexploded ordnance on former defense sites, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 25, 2006 
Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, Mr. FARR, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. MCDERMOTT, 
and Mr. CASE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To improve the effectiveness of Department of Defense pro-
grams for the remediation of unexploded ordnance on 
former defense sites, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Military Range Legacy Act of 2006’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec.
1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec.
2. Definitions.
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Sec.
3. Department of Defense implementation of requirements regarding 
unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and muni-
tions constituents. 
Sec.
4. Wide-area assessment of suspected UXO sites. 
Sec.
5. Detection instrument technology research. 
Sec.
6. Single Munitions Response Program. 
Sec.
7. Inventory.
Sec.
8. Public database of incidents involving unexploded ordnance or dis-
carded military munitions. 
Sec.
9. Sense of Congress regarding procurement and use of munitions. 
Sec.
10. Report on defense site cleanup at military installations closed or re-
aligned under base closure law. 
Sec.
11. Comptroller General study on adequacy of funding, staffing, and or-
ganization of military munitions response program. 
Sec.
12. Comptroller General study on defense land management and trans-
fer. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) The term ‘‘unexploded ordnance’’ has the 
meaning given such term in sections 101(e)(5) of 
title 10, United States Code. 
(2) The terms ‘‘defense site’’, ‘‘discarded mili-
tary munitions’’, and ‘‘munitions constituents’’ have 
the meanings given such terms in sections 2710(e) 
of such title. 
(3) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Defense. 
(4) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Armed Services of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate. 
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SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IMPLEMENTATION OF 
REQUIREMENTS REGARDING UNEXPLODED 
ORDNANCE, 
DISCARDED 
MILITARY 
MUNI-
TIONS, AND MUNITIONS CONSTITUENTS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of De-
fense should fully implement, within the shortest possible 
time-frame, all of the requirements of— 
(1) chapter 160, United States Code, related to 
all previous Congressional directives related to the 
inventorying, 
characterization, 
remediation, 
and 
management of explosive and related risks with re-
spect to unexploded ordnance, discarded military 
munitions, and munitions constituents at defense 
sites; and 
(2) section 313 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law 107– 
107; 10 U.S.C. 2706 note) related to the assessment 
of environmental remediation of unexploded ord-
nance, discarded military munitions, and munitions 
constituents at defense sites. 
SEC. 4. WIDE-AREA ASSESSMENT OF SUSPECTED UXO 
SITES. 
Section 2710 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(f) WIDE-AREA ASSESSMENT.—(1) The Secretary 
shall establish a program (to be known as the ‘wide-area 
assessment program’) to conduct an assessment of for-
merly used defense sites that are known or suspected to 
contain unexploded ordnance, discarded military muni-
tions, or munitions constituents using archival searches of 
existing records, visual site inspections, airborne wide-area 
screening, and related technologies, for the purpose of de-
lineating which areas within those sites do not contain 
unexploded ordnance and discarded military munitions. 
‘‘(2) The wide-area assessment program shall be com-
pleted by the end of the fifth complete fiscal year begin-
ning after the date of the enactment of the Military Range 
Legacy Act of 2006. 
‘‘(3) There is authorized to be appropriated a total 
of $1,000,000,000 during fiscal years 2007 through 2011 
to carry out the wide-area assessment program. Amounts 
appropriated pursuant to this authorization of appropria-
tions shall remain available until expended. 
‘‘(4) The Secretary shall include as part of the annual 
inventory and site-prioritization list required by subsection 
(c) a review of the progress of the wide-area assessment 
program.’’ 
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SEC. 
5. 
DETECTION 
INSTRUMENT 
TECHNOLOGY 
RE-
SEARCH. 
(a) RESEARCH PROGRAM REQUIRED.—The Secretary 
shall establish a program for the research, development, 
testing, and evaluation of unexploded ordnance detection 
instrument technology. The research shall be done in con-
sultation with appropriate munitions developers in order 
to encourage the development of complementary munitions 
and detection technologies. 
(b) RESEARCH APPROACHES.—The Secretary may 
carry out the program through— 
(1) grants, contracts or other financial arrange-
ments in accordance with other applicable law to pri-
vate companies, academic and research institutions, 
or other appropriate nongovernmental entities; or 
(2) by utilizing an existing Federal agency, lab-
oratory or research entity, as appropriate. 
(c) APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY TO DETECTION 
OF IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES.—Up to 10 percent 
of the total amount appropriated to carry out the program 
may be obligated for research into applying unexploded 
ordnance detection instrument technology to the detection 
of improvised explosive devices in theaters of combat. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2007 through 2011 to carry out the program. 
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