I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3648 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense access road 
resilience, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 9, 2019 
Mr. CUNNINGHAM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense 
access road resilience, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defense Access Road 
Enhancement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO 
DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD RESILIENCE. 
Section 210 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a)(1) The 
Secretary’’ and all that follows through the end of 
paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—When defense access roads 
are certified to the Secretary as important to the na-
tional defense by the Secretary of Defense or such 
other official as the President may designate, the 
Secretary is authorized, out of the funds appro-
priated for defense access roads, to provide for— 
‘‘(A) the construction and maintenance of 
defense access roads (including bridges, tubes, 
tunnels, and culverts or other hydraulic appur-
tenances on those roads) to— 
‘‘(i) military reservations; 
‘‘(ii) defense industry sites; 
‘‘(iii) air or sea ports that are nec-
essary for or are planned to be used for 
the deployment or sustainment of members 
of the Armed Forces, equipment, or sup-
plies; or 
‘‘(iv) sources of raw materials; 
‘‘(B) the reconstruction or enhancement of, 
or improvements to, those roads to ensure the 
continued effective use of the roads, regardless 
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of current or projected increases in mean tides, 
recurrent flooding, or other weather-related 
conditions or natural disasters; and 
‘‘(C) replacing existing highways and high-
way connections that are shut off from general 
public use by necessary closures, closures due to 
mean sea level fluctuation and flooding, or re-
strictions at— 
‘‘(i) military reservations; 
‘‘(ii) air or sea ports that are nec-
essary for or are planned to be used for 
the deployment or sustainment of members 
of the Armed Forces, equipment, or sup-
plies; or 
‘‘(iii) defense industry sites.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘the construc-
tion and maintenance of’’ and inserting ‘‘construc-
tion, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, reha-
bilitation, and preservation of, or enhancements to,’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘him’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
Secretary’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘construction, mainte-
nance, and repair work’’ and inserting ‘‘activi-
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ties for construction, maintenance, reconstruc-
tion, enhancement, improvement, and repair’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘therein’’ and inserting ‘‘in 
those areas’’; and 
(D) by striking ‘‘condition for such train-
ing purposes and for repairing the damage 
caused to such highways by the operations of 
men and equipment in such training.’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘condition for— 
‘‘(1) that training; and 
‘‘(2) repairing the damage to those highways 
caused by— 
‘‘(A) weather-related events, increases in 
mean high tide levels, recurrent flooding, or 
natural disasters; or 
‘‘(B) the operations of men and equipment 
in such training.’’; 
(4) in subsection (g)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘he’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
Secretary’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘construction which has 
been’’ and inserting ‘‘construction and other ac-
tivities’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘upon his demand’’ and in-
serting ‘‘upon demand by the Secretary’’; and 
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(5) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(i) REPAIR
OF CERTAIN DAMAGES
AND INFRA-
STRUCTURE.—The funds appropriated to carry out this 
section may be used to pay the cost of repairing damage 
caused, or any infrastructure to mitigate a risk posed, to 
a defense access road by recurrent or projected recurrent 
flooding, sea level fluctuation, a natural disaster, or any 
other current or projected change in applicable environ-
mental conditions, if the Secretary determines that contin-
ued access to a military installation, defense industry site, 
air or sea port necessary for or planned to be used for 
the deployment or sustainment of members of the Armed 
Forces, equipment, or supplies, or to a source of raw mate-
rials, has been or is projected to be impacted by those 
events or conditions.’’. 
Æ 
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