Opinion ID: 168143
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: National Defense Authorization Act

Text: 18 The NDAA is enacted each fiscal year to specify the budget needs for the Department of Defense. See National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Pub.L. No. 106-65, 113 Stat. 512 (1999). The NDAA authorizes appropriations for Department of Defense military activities, including military construction and defense activities for the Department of Energy. Id. 19 On October 5, 1999, Congress enacted § 2815 of the NDAA, which affected Utah's public lands adjacent or near to the Utah Test and Training Range and Dugway Proving Grounds or beneath Military Operating Areas, Restricted Areas, and airspace that make up the Utah Test and Training Range. NDAA § 2815(a), 113 Stat. 512, 852 (1999). The NDAA provided in § 2815(d) that the Secretary of Interior may not proceed with any amendment of any individual resource management plan until the Secretary of Defense submits a study to Congress evaluating the impact of any proposed changes to land management plans upon military training, testing, and operational readiness. NDAA § 2815(d), 113 Stat. 512, 852 (1999).