Defense Access Roads Improvement Act
Bill: H.R.8205 | Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John (D-CA)
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Defense Access Roads Improvement Act
This bill updates provisions and requirements related to defense access roads, including by requiring the Department of Defense to establish a formal mechanism under which a state, county, or municipality may petition to certify roads as defense access roads.

To require certain reports relating to defense access roads, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Access Roads Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD PROGRAM ENHANCEMENTS TO ADDRESS 
              TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN VICINITY OF MILITARY 
              INSTALLATIONS.

    Section 2816 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2012 (Public Law 112-81) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``this Act'' and 
                inserting ``the Defense Access Roads Improvement Act''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``this Act'' and 
                inserting ``the Defense Access Roads Improvement Act''; 
                and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(d) Petition for Certification of Roads as Defense Access 
Roads.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than October 1, 2023, the 
        Secretary of Defense shall establish a formal mechanism under 
        which--
                    ``(A) a State, county, or municipality may petition 
                the Secretary to certify roads as defense access roads 
                under section 210 of title 23, United States Code; and
                    ``(B) the Secretary shall respond, in writing, to 
                any such petition.
            ``(2) State defined.--In this subsection, the term `State' 
        means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, 
        American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
        Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States 
        Virgin Islands.
    ``(e) Public Availability of Information.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall maintain and update regularly on an appropriate website of the 
Federal Government, a list of all roads certified as important to the 
national defense by the Secretary or by such other official as the 
President may designate. Such website shall include, for each such 
road, each of the following:
            ``(1) The military installation (as such term is defined in 
        section 2687(g)(1) of title 10, United States Code) that is in 
        closest proximity to the road.
            ``(2) The date on which the road was so certified.
            ``(3) Any fiscal year for which the President transmitted 
        to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, 
        a budget request that included an amount for such road.
            ``(4) Any fiscal year for which Congress appropriated an 
        amount for such road.
    ``(f) Treatment of Classified Information.--Nothing in subsection 
(d) or (e) shall be construed as a requirement for the Secretary of 
Defense to make publicly available any classified information.''.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS.

    Section 2814(b) of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``April 1, 2009'' and inserting ``one year 
        after the date of the enactment of the Defense Access Roads 
        Improvement Act''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``and name any road that the commander of a military 
        installation (as such term is defined in section 2687(g)(1) of 
        title 10, United States Code) or the Secretary of a military 
        department has recommended that the Secretary of Defense 
        certify as a defense access road during the period beginning on 
        April 1, 2009, and ending on the date of the enactment of the 
        Defense Roads Improvement Act''.

SEC. 4. IMPROVEMENT OF DEFENSE ACCESS ROADS PROGRAM.

    Section 210 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by inserting ``or 
                        military installations'' after 
                        ``reservations''; and
                            (ii) in clause (iii), by inserting ``or 
                        commercial shipyards'' after ``sea ports'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (C)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by inserting ``or 
                        military installations'' after 
                        ``reservations''; and
                            (ii) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or 
                        commercial shipyards'' after ``sea ports'';
            (2) in subsection (f), by striking ``section 112'' and 
        inserting ``sections 112, 113, and 313'';
            (3) in subsection (i), by inserting ``, or commercial 
        shipyard'' after ``sea port''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Military Installation Defined.--In this section, the term 
`military installation' has the meaning given that term in section 2801 
of title 10, United States Code.''.
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