Title: To direct the Secretary of Defense to report on vulnerabilities from sea level rise to certain military installations located outside the continental United States.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Defense to report to Congress on the vulnerabilities to sea level rise of (1) the Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, and (2) the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (in the Marshall Islands). The report shall include identification of alternative locations for the continuance of the installations' operations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3309 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3309

 To direct the Secretary of Defense to report on vulnerabilities from 
 sea level rise to certain military installations located outside the 
                       continental United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2019

Mr. Brown of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Defense to report on vulnerabilities from 
 sea level rise to certain military installations located outside the 
                       continental United States.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON VULNERABILITIES FROM SEA LEVEL RISE TO CERTAIN 
              MILITARY INSTALLATIONS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL 
              UNITED STATES.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives a report on vulnerabilities from sea level rise to 
covered installations located outside of the continental United States.
    (b) Contents.--For each covered installation, the report required 
by subsection (a) shall include the following:
            (1) An analysis of the impacts to the operations, 
        contingency plans, and readiness of such installation from a 
        sea level rise.
            (2) A discussion of mitigation efforts, including dredging, 
        reclaiming land, and island building, that may be necessary due 
        to a sea level rise--
                    (A) to ensure the continued operational viability 
                of such installation; and
                    (B) to increase the resiliency of such 
                installation.
            (3) The estimated costs of the efforts discussed under 
        paragraph (2).
            (4) An identification of alternative locations for the 
        continuance of operations of such installation if such 
        installation is rendered inoperable.
    (c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
    (d) Covered Installation Defined.--In this section, the term 
``covered installation'' means the following military installations:
            (1) Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.
            (2) Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.
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