Title: Defense Access Road Enhancement Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Defense Access Road Enhancement Act
This bill revises the authority of the Department of Transportation to improve the construction and reconstruction of defense access roads, including repairing damage to roads caused by weather-related events, increases in mean high tide levels, recurrent flooding, or natural disasters.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3648 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3648

 To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense access road 
                  resilience, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2019

Mr. Cunningham introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 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 Representatives 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--
            (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 national defense by the 
        Secretary of Defense or such other official as the President 
        may designate, the Secretary is authorized, out of the funds 
        appropriated 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 appurtenances on those 
                roads) to--
                            ``(i) military reservations;
                            ``(ii) defense industry sites;
                            ``(iii) air or sea ports that are necessary 
                        for or are planned to be used for the 
                        deployment or sustainment of members of the 
                        Armed Forces, equipment, or supplies; 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 of current or 
                projected increases in mean tides, recurrent flooding, 
                or other weather-related conditions or natural 
                disasters; and
                    ``(C) replacing existing highways and highway 
                connections that are shut off from general public use 
                by necessary closures, closures due to mean sea level 
                fluctuation and flooding, or restrictions at--
                            ``(i) military reservations;
                            ``(ii) air or sea ports that are necessary 
                        for or are planned to be used for the 
                        deployment or sustainment of members of the 
                        Armed Forces, equipment, or supplies; or
                            ``(iii) defense industry sites.'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``the construction and 
        maintenance of'' and inserting ``construction, reconstruction, 
        resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of, 
        or enhancements to,'';
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``him'' and inserting ``the 
                Secretary'';
                    (B) by striking ``construction, maintenance, and 
                repair work'' and inserting ``activities for 
                construction, maintenance, reconstruction, enhancement, 
                improvement, and repair'';
                    (C) by striking ``therein'' and inserting ``in 
                those areas''; and
                    (D) by striking ``condition for such training 
                purposes and for repairing the damage caused to such 
                highways by the operations of men and equipment in such 
                training.'' and inserting 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 activities''; and
                    (C) by striking ``upon his demand'' and inserting 
                ``upon demand by the Secretary''; and
            (5) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the following:
    ``(i) Repair of Certain Damages and Infrastructure.--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 environmental conditions, if 
the Secretary determines that continued 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 materials, 
has been or is projected to be impacted by those events or 
conditions.''.
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