To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to improve the surplus property disposal process for closed or realigned military installations.

Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to: (1) require (currently, authorizes) the transfer to a local redevelopment authority (LRA) by the Secretary of Defense of real and personal property at a closed or realigned military installation, including existing housing units and real property designated for future housing units, to be without consideration (if the LRA takes certain steps); (2) remove the requirement that the Secretary seek to obtain consideration for such transfers with respect to military installations for which the date of approval of closure or realignment is after January 1, 2005; (3) remove the Secretary's authority to recommend that an installation be placed in an inactive status for national security or other U.S. interests; and (4) make the LRA the single community based organization responsible for monitoring Federal environmental remediation activities with respect to the installation.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1903 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1903

   To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to 
 improve the surplus property disposal process for closed or realigned 
                        military installations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2003

   Mr. Farr introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to 
 improve the surplus property disposal process for closed or realigned 
                        military installations.

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

SECTION 1. IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SURPLUS PROPERTY DISPOSAL AND BASE REUSE 
              PROCESS.

    Section 2905(b)(4)(B) of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment 
Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 
note), as amended, is further amended--
            (1) by striking ``may be without consideration'' in the 
        second sentence and inserting ``, including existing housing 
        units and real property designated for future housing units, 
        shall be without consideration''; and
            (2) by striking the first sentence.

SEC. 2. PROCEDURES FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REALIGNMENTS AND 
              CLOSURES FOR 2005 ROUND; COMMISSION CONSIDERATION OF 
              RECOMMENDATIONS.

    Section 2914 of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 
1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (c); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections 
        (c) and (d), respectively.

SEC. 3. ROLE OF LOCAL REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES.

    Section 2910(9) of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 
1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) 
is amended to read as follows:
            ``(9) The term `redevelopment authority', in the case of an 
        installation to be closed or realigned under this part, means 
        any entity (including an entity established by a State or local 
        government) recognized by the Secretary of Defense--
                    ``(A) as the single entity responsible for 
                developing the redevelopment plan or for directing the 
                implementation of such plan with respect to the 
                installation; and
                    ``(B) as the single community based organization 
                responsible for monitoring Federal environmental 
                remediation activities with respect to the 
                installation.''.
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