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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7091 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to codify and rename the Office 
of Economic Adjustment of the Department of Defense, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 4, 2020 
Mr. CROW (for himself, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. HECK, and Mr. YOUNG) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to codify and rename 
the Office of Economic Adjustment of the Department 
of Defense, 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 Community 
Investment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Office of Economic Adjustment, 
through relationships with defense communities built 
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over the course of years, is uniquely situated and 
technically staffed to effectively administer the Com-
munity Investment Program of the Department of 
Defense and to help States and communities main-
tain strong relationships that address community 
challenges while simultaneously supporting military 
readiness. 
(2) Installation readiness and resiliency does 
not stop at the fence line, and often requires coordi-
nation and planning with other organizations of the 
Department of Defense, the Armed Forces, other 
Federal departments and agencies, and communities 
surrounding military installations. 
(3) The Community Investment Program en-
ables States and communities to organize, evaluate, 
and plan for appropriate community investments 
that support the sustainability, readiness, and 
growth of a military mission at an installation by— 
(A) 
addressing 
impacts 
that 
mission 
growth may have on everything from housing, 
schools, transportation, utilities, access to med-
ical services, and other public services; 
(B) providing funding to construct, ren-
ovate, repair, or expand public schools located 
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on military installations to address capacity and 
facility condition deficiencies; and 
(C) improving accessibility and safety of 
access to medical facilities for wounded war-
riors, veterans, staff, and all other eligible bene-
ficiaries. 
(4) The Defense Community Infrastructure 
Pilot Program authorizes the Secretary of Defense 
to make grants, conclude cooperative agreements, 
and provide supplemental funds to address defi-
ciencies in community infrastructure supportive of a 
military installation. 
(5) The Defense Manufacturing Communities 
Program authorizes long-term investments by the 
Secretary of Defense in critical skills, facilities, re-
search and development, and small business support 
by designating and supporting consortiums in order 
to strengthen national security innovation. 
(6) The Office of Economic Adjustment con-
tinues to help communities affected by base realign-
ments and closures to address issues by assisting in 
land use planning to respond to unanticipated envi-
ronmental contamination and the availability of new 
parcels of land for redevelopment. 
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(7) Industry resilience projects support critical 
military missions by building a more competitive and 
resilient defense industrial base, creating closer civil-
ian-military partnerships, and promoting community 
and economic development that support key military 
missions, including by— 
(A) promoting industry resilience, with 
funding that helps protect critical production 
capabilities and expand markets for defense 
suppliers; 
(B) enhancing military modernization, by 
helping defense suppliers become more innova-
tive and invent, develop, and deploy techno-
logically superior products for the Armed 
Forces; and 
(C) preserving military readiness, by help-
ing communities, companies, and workers be-
come more agile and responsive to the fluid 
military needs and requirements. 
(8) The Military Installation Sustainability Pro-
gram of assistance provides technical and financial 
assistance to States and local governments to ana-
lyze and implement actions necessary to foster, pro-
tect, and enhance military installation sustainability 
that alleviates and prevents incompatible develop-
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ment and other manmade or natural threats to in-
stallation resiliency including— 
(A) compatible use and joint land use stud-
ies; 
(B) compatible use plans; and 
(C) military installation resilience reviews. 
(9) Reductions to the budget of the Office of 
Economic Adjustment will adversely affect the de-
fense community missions the Office supports, harm 
small businesses, impede efforts to rebuild schools 
for children of members of the Armed Forces, and 
compromise readiness and infrastructure resiliency 
efforts. 
SEC. 3. OFFICE OF DEFENSE COMMUNITY COOPERATION 
AND ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Chapter 141 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
section 2391 the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2391a. Office of Defense Community Cooperation 
and Economic Adjustment 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is in the Office of the 
Secretary of Defense an Office of Defense Community Co-
operation and Economic Adjustment (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘Office’). 
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‘‘(b) HEAD OF OFFICE.—There is a Director of the 
Office who shall be the head of the Office. The Director 
shall be appointed by the Secretary of Defense. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES.—The Office shall— 
‘‘(1) serve as the office in the Department of 
Defense with primary responsibility for— 
‘‘(A) providing assistance to States, coun-
ties, municipalities, regions, and other commu-
nities to foster cooperation with military instal-
lations to enhance the military mission, achieve 
facility and infrastructure savings and reduced 
operating costs, address encroachment and 
compatible land use issues, support military 
families, and increase military, civilian, and in-
dustrial readiness and resiliency; and 
‘‘(B) providing adjustment and diversifica-
tion assistance to State and local governments 
under section 2391(b) to achieve the objectives 
described in subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(2) coordinate the provision of such assistance 
with other organizations and elements of the De-
partment; 
‘‘(3) provide support to the Economic Adjust-
ment Committee established under Executive Order 
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lished under section 2391a of title 10, United States Code 
(as added by subsection (a)). 
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