Title: Protecting Our Military Installations from Recurrent Floods Act of 2018
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Protecting Our Military Installations from Recurrent Floods Act of 2018
This bill requires the Department of Defense to disclose whether any proposed major or minor military construction project requiring congressional notification or approval will be sited within or partially within a 100-year floodplain, according to the most recent available Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood hazard data.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2766 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2766

  To require congressional notification related to current and future 
  planning and construction of federally funded military construction 
             projects located within 100-year floodplains.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 26, 2018

   Mr. Schatz (for himself, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Reed) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require congressional notification related to current and future 
  planning and construction of federally funded military construction 
             projects located within 100-year floodplains.

    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 ``Protecting Our Military 
Installations from Recurrent Floods Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. FLOOD RISK DISCLOSURE FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall modify Department 
of Defense Form 1391 to require, with respect to any proposed major or 
minor military construction project requiring congressional 
notification or approval, disclosure whether a proposed project will be 
sited within or partially within a 100-year floodplain, according to 
the most recent available Federal Emergency Management Agency flood 
hazard data.
    (b) Delineation of Floodplain.--To the extent that Federal 
Emergency Management Agency flood hazard data are not available for a 
proposed major or minor military construction site, the Secretary 
concerned shall establish a process for delineating the 100-year 
floodplain using risk analysis that is consistent with the standards 
used to inform Federal flood risk assessments.
    (c) Reporting Requirements.--For proposed projects that are to be 
sited within or partially within a 100-year floodplain, the Secretary 
concerned shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
with the following:
            (1) An assessment of flood vulnerability for the proposed 
        project.
            (2) Any information concerning alternative construction 
        sites that were considered, and an explanation of why those 
        sites do not satisfy mission requirements.
            (3) A description of planned flood mitigation measures.
    (d) Minimum Flood Mitigation Requirements.--When mitigating the 
flood risk of a major or minor military construction project within or 
partially within the 100-year floodplain, the Secretary concerned shall 
require any mitigation plan to assume an additional--
            (1) 2 feet above the base flood elevation for non-mission 
        critical buildings, as determined by the Secretary; and
            (2) 3 feet above the base flood elevation for mission-
        critical buildings, as determined by the Secretary.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ```congressional 
defense committees''' and ``Secretary concerned'' have the meaning 
given the terms in section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code.
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