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Former Charleston Naval Base Land Exchange Act of 2012 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to exchange specified parcels of land owned by the United States located on the former U.S. Naval Base Complex in North Charleston, South Carolina, (federal land) for specified parcels owned by the South Carolina State Ports Authority (non-federal land). Requires that, upon acceptance of title to the non-federal land by the Secretary: (1) the non-federal land be added to and administered as part of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and (2) the boundaries of the Center be adjusted to exclude the exchanged federal land.

Date: 2012-02-01
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Base Redevelopment and Indemnification Correction Act of 2012 - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to expand the indemnification responsibilities of the Department of Defense (DOD) with respect to transferred property at former military installations to include all military installations closed since October 24, 1988, the date of enactment of the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act.

Date: 2012-11-28
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
National Emergency Centers Establishment Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish at least six national emergency centers on military installations to use existing infrastructure to provide: (1) temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster; and (2) centralized locations for the training of first responders and the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.

Lists minimum requirements for sites for such centers, including that they be capable of: (1) meeting for an extended period the housing, health, transportation, education, public works, humanitarian, and other transition needs of a large number of individuals affected; (2) being scaled up or down to accommodate major disaster preparedness and response drills, operations, and procedures; (3) housing existing permanent structures necessary to meet training and first responders coordination requirements during non-disaster periods; and (4) hosting the infrastructure necessary to rapidly adjust to temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance needs.

Sets forth center location requirements, including requiring the Secretary to designate closed military installations as sites whenever possible and to designate portions of existing military installations as centers otherwise.

Date: 2013-01-23
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Emergency management
HUBZone Expansion Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act to include as a base closure area for purposes of the HUBZONE (historically underutilized business zone) program of the Small Business Administration (SBA) a military installation's municipality, county, census tract, or contiguous census tract having a total population of no more than 50,000, as determined by the most recent census.

Date: 2013-02-04
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Commerce
Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases in FY2013-FY2014 in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Reduces lease amounts authorized in previous fiscal years for VA outpatient clinics in: (1) Johnson County, Kansas; (2) San Diego, California; and (3) Tyler, Texas.

Date: 2013-02-28
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
(Sec. 1) Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on federal lands) to allow funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) that are obligated to cooperative agreements with states, local governments, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals for maintenance and improvement of natural resources located off of military or state-owned National Guard installations (but that are related to current or anticipated military activities) to be: (1) paid in a lump sum and include an amount intended to cover the future costs of the activities under the agreement; and (2) invested by the recipient in accordance with the recipient's own investment management guidelines, with any investment interest or income permitted to be applied for the same purposes as the principal.

Allows such cooperative agreements to be used to acquire property or services for the direct benefit or use of the U.S. government.

Permits amounts available to the DOD that are provided to any federal, state, local, or nongovernmental entity for conservation and rehabilitation of natural resources in an area that is not on a military installation to be used only for payment of direct costs associated with the management of such area. Authorizes payment of up to 3% of total project administrative costs, fees, and management charges.

 Prohibits amounts available to the DOD from being used under such Act to acquire fee title interest in real property for such natural resources projects that are not on a military installation.

Requires the DOD Inspector General to conduct annual audits of natural resources projects funded with amounts available to DOD under such Act that are not on a military installation.

(Sec. 2) Allows the recipient of funds in agreements under the Sikes Act, or other specified agreements with states, political subdivisions, or private entities pursuant to military laws addressing the use or development of real property near or ecologically related to military installations or airspace, to use such funds to satisfy any matching funds or cost-sharing requirement of the Departments of Agriculture (USDA) or the Interior.

(Sec. 3) Declares that this Act expires on October 1, 2019, except that cooperative agreements entered into before such date shall continue as if this Act has not expired.

Date: 2013-03-12
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Formerly Owned Resources for Veterans to Express Thanks for Service Act of 2013 or the FOR VETS Act of 2013 - Authorizes the transfer of federal surplus property to a state agency for distribution through donation within the state for purposes of education or public health for organizations whose membership comprises substantially veterans and whose representatives are recognized by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims under laws administered by the Secretary.

Date: 2013-03-14
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, at such time as the Navy vacates the real property known as the DOD Camarillo Airport, to convey such property to Ventura County, California, in order for the County to use such property for airport-related purposes.

Date: 2013-04-16
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Security Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to transfer to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy identified public land in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties, California, that is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Requires the transferred land to be included as part of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, and authorizes the use of such land for military purposes.

Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) establish a reservation in favor of the United States with respect to any water or water right on lands transferred by this Act, or (2) authorize the appropriation of water on lands transferred by this Act except in accordance with applicable state law. Withdraws from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws and geothermal leasing laws, the public land to be transferred by this Act, so long as such land remains under the Secretary of the Army's administrative jurisdiction.

Date: 2013-04-23
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Transfer Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy administrative jurisdiction over certain public lands in Imperial and Riverside Counties, California, for inclusion within the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. Withdraws the mineral estate of such land from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws and the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, for as long as the land is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy.

Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prepare an integrated natural resources management plan with respect to the transferred lands.

Requires the Secretary of the Navy, upon determining that there is no longer a military need for the lands transferred, to transfer such lands back to the Secretary of the Interior. Requires appropriate land decontamination preceding the retransfer.

Amends the California Military Lands Withdrawal and Overflights Act of 1994 to extend a land withdrawal and reservation period consistent with the above transfer.

Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect existing water rights on the transferred lands.

Date: 2013-04-23
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey at current state of agricultural use market prices specified lands formerly part of the Fort Bayard Military Reservation, Grant County, New Mexico, to the Village of Santa Clara, the City of Bayard, and Grant County, New Mexico, in tracts of not less than 40 acres, for business and community development.

Requires approval of all parties for any such conveyance.

Provides that the Secretary shall be responsible for the costs and recovery of any historic or prehistoric cultural properties located on such lands.

Date: 2013-06-12
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Veterans' Local Access Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases in: (1) New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts in FY2013; and (2) Missouri, Tennessee, California, Illinois, Texas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Arizona, and Oklahoma in FY2014.

Date: 2013-08-01
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases (leases) in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, Arizona, and Oklahoma.

Directs the Secretary, in exercising the authority to enter into such leases, to record as the full cost of the contractual obligation at the time a contract is executed either: (1) the amount of total payments under the full lease term; or (2) if the lease specifies payments to be made in the event the lease is terminated before its full term, an amount sufficient to cover the first-year payments plus the specified cancellation costs.

Requires the funding prospectus of a proposed lease to include a detailed analysis of how the lease is expected to comply with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-11 (which provides guidance to federal agencies in meeting statutory requirements for disclosure of the full costs of contracts or leases) and the Anti-Deficiency Act, including an analysis of: (1) the classification of the lease as a lease-purchase, capital lease, or operating lease; (2) the obligation of budgetary resources associated with the lease; and (3) the methodology used in determining the asset cost, fair market value, and cancellation costs of the lease.

Directs the Secretary, at least 30 days before entering into a lease, to submit to the congressional veterans committees: (1) notice of the intention to enter into, and a copy of, such lease; (2) a description and analysis of any differences between the lease prospectus submitted and the proposed lease; and (3) a scoring analysis demonstrating that the proposed lease fully complies with OMB Circular A-11. Requires the Secretary, no more than 30 days after entering into a lease, to report any material differences between the proposed lease and the lease entered.

Date: 2013-11-18
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Save our Military Shopping Benefits Act - Prohibits, until January 1, 2017, the Secretary of Defense (DOD) from: (1) closing any commissary or exchange store located within the United States, or (2) developing or implementing any plan that would result in the closure of all commissaries in the United States as part of a cost-saving effort.

Defines "close" to include any action that has the effect of: (1) reducing the operating hours or size of a commissary or exchange store below FY2014 levels, or (2) changing the location of such a store. Excepts a change in the size or location of such a store if the Secretary determines that the change is required for upgrading or modifying an existing structure for safety or health reasons.

Date: 2014-02-05
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Bureau of Land Management Withdrawn Military Lands Efficiency and Savings Act - Amends the Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999 to declare that the withdrawal and reservation of certain lands and interests concerning the Naval Air Station Fallon Ranges and the Nellis Air Force Range in Nevada, the Fort Greely East and West Training Ranges and the Yukon Training Range of Fort Wainright in Alaska, and the McGregor Range of Fort Bliss in New Mexico shall not terminate except by an election and a determination of the Secretary of the military department concerned or until the Secretary of the Interior can permanently transfer administrative jurisdiction of the withdrawn and reserved lands to that Secretary.

(Currently the withdrawal and reservation of such lands must terminate, except in certain circumstances, 25 years after November 6, 2001.)

Date: 2014-03-14
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain real property to the city of Copperas Cove, Texas, in order for the city to improve arterial transportation routes in the vicinity of Fort Hood and to promote economic development in the area.

Requires the city, in consideration for such conveyance, to convey all its right, title, and interest in real properties of equal fair market value that are acceptable to the Secretary.

Date: 2014-03-25
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on federal lands) to allow funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) that are obligated to cooperative agreements with states, local governments, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals for maintenance and improvement of natural resources located off of military or state-owned National Guard installations (but that are related to current or anticipated military activities) to be:

 paid in a lump sum and include an amount intended to cover the future costs of the activities under the agreement; invested by the recipient in accordance with the recipient's own investment management guidelines, with any investment interest or income permitted to be applied for the same purposes as the principal; and used only for the direct costs of maintaining and improving the natural resources pursuant to an approved DOD Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan and for certain indirect and administrative costs that do not exceed 10% of the total cost of the project. Allows such cooperative agreements to be used to acquire property or services for the direct benefit or use of the U.S. government.

Prohibits amounts available to DOD from being used under such Act to acquire fee title interest in real property for such natural resources projects that are not on a military installation.

Requires the Inspector General of DOD to: (1) conduct an audit of the natural resources projects funded with amounts available to DOD under the Sikes Act that are not on a military installation, and (2) report to Congress on the audit by October 1, 2018.

Terminates this Act on October 1, 2019, except that any cooperative agreement entered into under this Act on or before September 30, 2019, shall continue.

Date: 2014-03-26
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Guam Military Training and Readiness Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to enter into an agreement providing for the establishment and operation of a surface danger zone that overlays the Ritidian Unit of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge in order to accommodate the operation of a live-fire training range complex on Andersen Air Force Base-Northwest Field and the management of such Unit.

Requires such agreement to include measures to maintain the purposes of the Refuge and measures funded by the Secretary of the Navy for:

 relocation and reconstruction of Refuge structures and facilities; mitigation of impacts to wildlife species present in, or to be reintroduced into, the Refuge; use of Department of Defense (DOD) personnel to undertake conservation activities within the Unit normally performed by Department of the Interior personnel; and necessary openings and closures of the surface danger zone to the public.

Date: 2014-04-04
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Security Enhancement Act - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 to provide that the withdrawal and reservation of public land located within the boundaries of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties, California, shall not terminate except pursuant to: (1) an election and determination by the Secretary of the Navy to relinquish such land, or (2) a transfer by the Secretary of the Interior of permanent administrative jurisdiction over such land to the Secretary of the Navy. (Currently the withdrawal and reservation of such land shall terminate on March 31, 2039.)

Withdraws from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws, the mineral leasing laws, and the geothermal leasing laws, subject to valid existing rights, the public land (including interests in land) known as the Cuddeback Lake Air Force Range and additional public land in San Bernardino County, California, identified as the Proposed Navy Acquisition Area (but excluding the parcel identified as "AF Fee Simple"). Requires the Secretary of the Navy to ensure that the owners of the excluded private land continue to have reasonable access to their land and to manage the additional withdrawn lands to protect existing historic, economic, cultural, recreational, hunting, and scientific features and uses.

Date: 2014-04-10
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey, without consideration, to the city of Norwalk, California, all U.S. interest in a parcel of real property consisting of up to 15 acres at the former Air Force Norwalk Defense Fuel Supply Point for the purpose of permitting the city to use the property for public purposes. Conditions such conveyance on the city actively assisting the United States in disposing of the residual portion of the Point (approximately 36 acres) using General Services Administration (GSA) disposal authority.

Directs the Secretary to require the city to cover the administrative costs of carrying out such conveyance.

Date: 2014-05-15
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1974 to allow portions of the former bombardment area on the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico, to be utilized for purposes that would require decontamination at the expense of the United States. (Currently, such utilization is prohibited.)

Makes the authority for such utilization applicable to portions of such island identified as having regular public access in the Department of Defense (DOD) study entitled "Study Relating to the Presence of Unexploded Ordnance in a Portion of the Former Naval Bombardment Area of Culebra Island, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico," dated April 20, 2012, which was prepared in accordance with the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011.

Date: 2014-05-21
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Revises the definition of "entitlement land" for which the Secretary of the Interior is required to make payments to local governments in lieu of taxes to: (1) delete land on which are located semi-active or inactive installations that the Secretary of the Army keeps for mobilization and for reserve component training, and (2) include federal land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense (DOD) or the Secretary of a military department.

Date: 2014-05-21
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Requires real property of military installations that are closed pursuant to specified base closure laws to be disposed of by conveying all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the property if such property was originally acquired by the United States by donation for the purpose of establishing or expanding the installation.

Allows the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to authorize the retention of a reversionary interest in the conveyed property to ensure that it is used for a public purpose if the property is conveyed by the United States without consideration, or for consideration equal to less than fair market value, to support the property's subsequent use for such a purpose.

Makes this Act applicable retroactively to property conveyed pursuant to certain base closure laws before the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to convey to the recipient of such a previous conveyance any right, title, or interest that was retained by the United States during the original conveyance.

Date: 2014-07-31
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Return of Certain Lands At Fort Wingate to The Original Inhabitants Act - Requires all U.S. interest in and to specified lands of the former Fort Wingate Depot Activity in McKinley County, New Mexico (Activity), transferred to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for: (1) the Zuni Tribe as part of the Zuni Reservation, unless the Tribe elects to have the parcel conveyed to it in restricted fee status; and (2) the Navajo Nation as part of the Navajo Reservation, unless the Navajo Nation elects to have the parcel conveyed to it in restricted fee status.

Subjects the lands of the Activity held in trust or conveyed in restricted fee status to reservation by the United States of such easements as the Secretary of the Army determines are reasonably required to permit access to Activity lands for administrative, environmental cleanup, and environmental remediation purposes.

Requires the lands of the Activity identified as parcel 1 to be held in trust subject to a shared easement for cultural and religious purposes only.

Requires the access road for the Activity that originates at the frontage road for Interstate 40 and leads to the parcel of the administration area to be held in common by both the Zuni Tribe and the Navajo Nation to provide for equal access to the Activity.

Subjects lands held in trust or conveyed in restricted fee status to easements reasonably required to permit access to the Missile Defense Agency facility as needed by the Department of Defense (DOD).

Requires the Zuni Tribe or the Navajo Nation, after a parcel of land has been transferred or conveyed, to notify the Secretary of the Army of the existence or discovery of any contamination or hazardous material on it.

Date: 2014-09-09
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Native Americans
Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act - Amends the program under which the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer excess personal property of the Department of Defense (DOD) to federal and state agencies for law enforcement activities. Excludes counter-drug activities from the categories of law enforcement activities for which DOD property may be transferred under such program.

Requires recipients of DOD property to certify that they: (1) have personnel, technical capacity, and training to operate the property; and (2) will return to the DOD any property that is surplus to the recipient's needs. Requires recipients that are not federal agencies to certify that they have notified their local community of requests for DOD property with a notice on a publicly accessible Internet website and postings at prominent locations in the jurisdiction.

Requires the Secretary to submit annually to Congress a description of property to be transferred along with a certification that the transfers are not prohibited by law. Prohibits transfers of:

 automatic weapons that are not suitable for law enforcement purposes; weapons of .50 caliber or greater; tactical vehicles, including highly mobile multi-wheeled vehicles, armored vehicles, and mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles; armored or weaponized drones; aircraft that are combat configured or combat coded, or that have no established commercial flight application; grenades and similar explosives; silencers; and long range acoustic devices. Prohibits transfers conditioned upon the agency demonstrating the use of any small arms or ammunitions.

Requires the Secretary to ensure that certain items are not transferred from one federal or state agency to another such agency.

 Prohibits obligations or expenditures of appropriations to carry out the DOD's property transfer program unless specified conditions have been met, including requirements to verify: (1) that in-person inventories of transferred property have been conducted at each agency, and (2) that 100% of such property was accounted for during the inventories or that agencies unable to account for such property have been suspended from the program.

Requires the Defense Logistics Agency to maintain an Internet website that makes available publicly a description of: (1) each transfer broken down by state, county, and recipient; and (2) during the 30-day period preceding the date on which any property is transferred, the property to be transferred and the recipient.

Date: 2014-09-16
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to require state or local law enforcement, firefighting, homeland security, or emergency management agencies that purchase surplus military equipment to demonstrate, as a condition of the sale, that agency personnel have been certified, trained, or licensed in the proper operation of such equipment.

Prohibits the Secretary from transferring or donating excess DOD personal property to law enforcement or firefighting agencies unless the recipient agency demonstrates that personnel have received such certification, training, or licensing.

Date: 9/8/2014
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases in FY2013-FY2014 in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Reduces lease amounts authorized in previous fiscal years for VA outpatient clinics in: (1) Johnson County, Kansas; (2) San Diego, California; and (3) Tyler, Texas.

Date: 2013-02-28
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Formerly Owned Resources for Veterans to Express Thanks for Service Act of 2013 or the FOR VETS Act of 2013 - Authorizes the transfer of federal surplus property to a state agency for distribution through donation within the state for purposes of education or public health for organizations whose membership comprises substantially veterans and whose representatives are recognized by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims under laws administered by the Secretary.

Date: 2013-03-14
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases (leases) in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, Arizona, and Oklahoma.

Directs the Secretary, in exercising the authority to enter into such leases, to record as the full cost of the contractual obligation at the time a contract is executed either: (1) the amount of total payments under the full lease term; or (2) if the lease specifies payments to be made in the event the lease is terminated before its full term, an amount sufficient to cover the first-year payments plus the specified cancellation costs.

Requires the funding prospectus of a proposed lease to include a detailed analysis of how the lease is expected to comply with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-11 (which provides guidance to federal agencies in meeting statutory requirements for disclosure of the full costs of contracts or leases) and the Anti-Deficiency Act, including an analysis of: (1) the classification of the lease as a lease-purchase, capital lease, or operating lease; (2) the obligation of budgetary resources associated with the lease; and (3) the methodology used in determining the asset cost, fair market value, and cancellation costs of the lease.

Directs the Secretary, at least 30 days before entering into a lease, to submit to the congressional veterans committees: (1) notice of the intention to enter into, and a copy of, such lease; (2) a description and analysis of any differences between the lease prospectus submitted and the proposed lease; and (3) a scoring analysis demonstrating that the proposed lease fully complies with OMB Circular A-11. Requires the Secretary, no later than 30 days after entering into a lease, to report any material differences between the proposed lease and the lease entered.

Date: 2013-11-20
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Military Commissary Sustainment Act - Prohibits reducing the monthly amount of funds made available by the Department of Defense (DOD) for the defense commissary system during FY2015 below the average monthly amount made available during FY2014 until the date of the report of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.

Date: 2014-03-04
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Directs the Secretary of Defense to require state or local law enforcement, firefighting, homeland security, or emergency management agencies that purchase surplus military equipment to demonstrate, as a condition of the sale, that agency personnel have been certified, trained, or licensed in the proper operation of such equipment.

Prohibits the Secretary from transferring or donating excess Department of Defense personal property to law enforcement or firefighting agencies unless the recipient agency demonstrates that personnel have received such certification, training, or licensing.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Protection Act

This bill prohibits the President from modifying, terminating, abandoning, or transferring the lease with the government of Cuba by which the United States acquired 45 square miles of land and waters that currently contain Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unless: (1) the President notifies Congress of the proposed lease change, and (2) afterwards Congress enacts a law authorizing the change.

Date: 2015-02-02
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: International affairs
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey a parcel of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard on Azuar Drive in Vallejo, California, to permit the Touro University California to use the parcel for educational and administrative purposes in exchange for the Army acquiring a parking facility for the Mare Island Army Reserve Center.

Directs the Secretary to require the University to cover costs (except environmental remediation costs) incurred by the Secretary to carry out the conveyance.

Date: 2015-02-05
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Return of Certain Lands At Fort Wingate to The Original Inhabitants Act

 Requires all U.S. interest in and to specified lands of the former Fort Wingate Depot Activity in McKinley County, New Mexico (Activity), transferred to the Department of the Interior to be held in trust for: (1) the Zuni Tribe as part of the Zuni Reservation, unless the Tribe elects to have the parcel conveyed to it in restricted fee status; and (2) the Navajo Nation as part of the Navajo Reservation, unless the Navajo Nation elects to have the parcel conveyed to it in restricted fee status.

Subjects the lands of the Activity held in trust or conveyed in restricted fee status to reservation by the United States of such easements as the Department of the Army determines are reasonably required to permit access to Activity lands for administrative, environmental cleanup, and environmental remediation purposes.

Requires the lands of the Activity identified as parcel 1 to be held in trust subject to a shared easement for cultural and religious purposes only.

Requires the access road for the Activity that originates at the frontage road for Interstate 40 and leads to the parcel of the administration area to be held in common by both the Zuni Tribe and the Navajo Nation to provide for equal access to the Activity.

Subjects lands held in trust or conveyed in restricted fee status to easements reasonably required to permit access to the Missile Defense Agency facility as needed by the Department of Defense.

Requires the Zuni Tribe or the Navajo Nation, after a parcel of land has been transferred or conveyed, to notify the Secretary of the Army of the existence or discovery of any contamination or hazardous material on it.

Date: 2015-02-24
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Native Americans
Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act

Revises the Department of Defense's (DOD's) authority to transfer excess personal property to federal and state law enforcement agencies. Removes DOD's authority to transfer property for counter-drug activities.

Requires recipients of DOD property to certify that they: (1) have personnel, technical capacity, and training to operate the property; and (2) will return to DOD any property that is surplus to the recipient's needs. Requires recipients that are not federal agencies to certify that they have notified their local community of requests for DOD property with a notice on a publicly accessible Internet website and postings at prominent locations in the jurisdiction.

Requires DOD to submit annually to Congress a description of property to be transferred along with a certification that the transfers are not prohibited by law. Prohibits transfers of:

 controlled (i.e., military grade) firearms, ammunition, grenades, and explosives; controlled vehicles, certain trucks, and other highly mobile or mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles; armored or weaponized drones; controlled aircraft that are combat configured or combat coded, or that have no established commercial flight application; silencers; long range acoustic devices; and items in the Federal Supply Class of banned items. Prohibits transfers conditioned upon the agency demonstrating the use of any small arms or ammunitions.

Prohibits transfers of previously transferred DOD property from one federal or state agency to another such agency.

Allows DOD to waive transfer prohibitions for certain trucks and vehicles (other than mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles) if necessary for disasters, rescues, or other purposes where life and public safety are at risk. Requires notice of such a waiver to be provided to Congress and the public.

Permits DOD to exempt aircraft parts transferred for regular maintenance of aircraft in an existing fleet.

Prohibits obligations or expenditures of appropriations to carry out DOD's property transfer program unless specified conditions have been met, including requirements to verify: (1) that in-person inventories of transferred property have been conducted at each agency, and (2) that 100% of such property was accounted for during the inventories or that agencies unable to account for such property have been suspended from the program.

Prohibits federal or state agencies that receive controlled equipment from taking ownership of the property.

Requires the Defense Logistics Agency to maintain an Internet website to make available to the public: (1) information on each transfer, broken down by state, county, and recipient; (2) during the 30-day period preceding the date on which any property is transferred, information on the property to be transferred and the recipient; and (3) information on any use of controlled equipment by the transfer recipient.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
This bill authorizes the Department of the Army to produce, treat, manage, and use natural gas located under Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Natural gas produced may only be used to support activities and operations at Fort Knox, and may not be sold for use elsewhere.

Army may also take ownership of any production and treatment equipment or facilities utilized by a contractor in accordance with the terms of an agreement for the production or use of natural gas.

Date: 2016-04-18
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Military Infrastructure Consolidation and Efficiency Act of 2016

This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to: (1) develop a force structure plan (plan) for the Armed Forces based on a DOD assessment of threats to U.S. national security for FY2018-FY2038; (2) conduct a comprehensive inventory of military installations world-wide for each military department; and (3) submit a certification of whether the need exists for DOD to consolidate, close, or realign military installations (installation actions).

DOD may begin a round for the selection of installation actions only after Congress has had 90 days to consider such certification. The President may not begin such actions if Congress enacts a joint resolution of disapproval of the plan, inventory, or certification during such period.

DOD must certify that a round of installation actions will result in annual net savings within five years.

In developing its installation action recommendations, DOD shall consider an affected local government's approval of such an action.

The bill prescribes final selection criteria for such recommendations, which shall include military value criteria.

The bill establishes an independent Military Infrastructure Consolidation and Efficiency Commission of 2019 if: (1) DOD certifies that the need exists for a round for the selection of installation actions, and (2) Congress does not enact such a joint resolution of disapproval within the prescribed 90 days. The bill provides for: (1) commission review of, and authority to make changes to, DOD recommendations; and (2) presidential review of commission recommendations for the consolidation, closure, and realignment of military installations inside the United States.

DOD may provide economic adjustment assistance to an affected community.

DOD shall establish a new Field Activity to act as the executive agent for the management and disposal of excess real property resulting from installation actions. The General Services Administration shall delegate to DOD the authority to utilize excess property and dispose of surplus property located at a military installation closed or realigned under this Act.

The bill sets forth: (1) provisions governing the transfer of property located at an affected installation, (2) the responsibilities of the redevelopment authorities for such installations, and (3) the duties of the Department of Housing and Urban Development s regarding how redevelopment plans address the needs of the homeless.

The bill provides for establishment of the Military Infrastructure Consolidation and Efficiency 2019 account to be used for approved installation actions.

 This bill shall be the exclusive authority for selecting or carrying out installation actions inside the United States until April 15, 2020, excluding specified closures and realignments carried out for reasons of national security or a military emergency.

Date: 2016-06-21
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
This bill amends the Veterans' Benefits Programs Improvement Act of 1991 to authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to sell for fair market value Pershing Hall, in Paris, France, and transfer to the purchaser all right, title, and interest of the United States in the property.

 The VA shall return to the entity from which the United States acquired Pershing Hall any personal property in the VA's possession, including memorabilia regarding General Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.

The Pershing Hall Revolving Fund shall be abolished one year after such sale and its funds, as well as funds received from such sale, shall be deposited in the VA's Construction, Major Projects account.

Date: 2016-06-21
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
PFOS and PFOA Right to Know Act of 2016

This bill authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD) to enter into intergovernmental agreements to provide health screenings for conditions relating to perfluorooctanesuflonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) exposure in communities near formerly used defense sites that have been identified by DOD as sources of PFOS and PFOA.

Date: 2016-07-13
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
This bill authorizes the military department concerned, in the case of a military manufacturing arsenal, depot, or plant (a government-owned, government-operated defense plant of the Department of the Army that manufactures weapons, weapon components, or both), to authorize leases of and contracts for non-excess military property for a term of up to 25 years if it determines that such a lease or contract will promote the national defense or be in the public interest for the purpose of:

 helping to maintain the viability of such arsenal, depot, or plant and any military installations on which it is located; eliminating, or at least reducing, the cost of government ownership of the arsenal, depot, or plant; and leveraging private investment at the arsenal, depot, or plant through long-term facility use contracts, property management contracts, leases, or other agreements that support and advance the preceding purposes. The department concerned may delegate such authority to the commander of the major subordinate command of the Army responsible for the arsenal, depot, plant, or installation. The commander may approve such a lease or contract on a case-by-case or class basis. Any lease or contract approved utilizing such authority is subject to a 90-day hold period so that the Army real property manager may review it. If such manager disapproves of it, the agreement shall be null and void upon transmittal to the delegating authority of a written disapproval, including a justification, within the hold period. If no such disapproval is transmitted within such period, the agreement shall be deemed approved.

 If, by 60 days after receiving a disapproval, the delegating authority submits a new contract or lease that addresses the manager's concerns, it shall be deemed approved unless the manager transmits a disapproval within 30 days of submission.

 The authority under this bill shall terminate at the close of September 30, 2019.

Date: 2016-09-22
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to transfer certain property within the exterior boundaries of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation within North Dakota that was acquired by the United States for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir Project to the Department of the Interior to be held in trust for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota.

The Corps of Engineers shall convey to North Dakota all right of the United States to certain property in Burleigh County, Emmons County, or Morton County in North Dakota that was acquired by the United States for such project and and that is located above the top of the exclusive flood pool of the project.

The transfer of such land shall not interfere with any of the authorized purposes of such project, any project of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, or any applicable law. The Corps of Engineers shall retain: (1) the right to inundate with water or cause erosion to the transferred lands as necessary for the operation of such projects; and (2) any land, structures, easements or other property interests necessary to carry out such projects.

 The Tribe and North Dakota shall be responsible for the payment of costs and administrative expenses associated with the transfers and for any coordination necessary with respect to requirements related to endangered species, cultural resources, and clean air.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Sell the VA's Hotel Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to sell Pershing Hall for fair market value, transfer to the purchaser all right, title, and interest of the United States to the property, and return to the American Legion any personal property in the VA's possession that was located in or otherwise associated with Pershing Hall on the date of such sale, including memorabilia regarding General Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.

The Pershing Hall Revolving Fund shall be abolished and its funds shall be deposited in the General Fund.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Defense (Installations & Land)
Subject: Armed forces and national security