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10 U.S.C. § 2826 — Military family housing: local comparability of room patterns and floor areas
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**(a) Local Comparability.—** In the construction, acquisition, and improvement of military family housing, the Secretary concerned shall ensure that the room patterns and floor areas of military family housing in a particular locality (as designated by the Secretary concerned for purposes of this section) are similar to room patterns and floor areas of similar housing in the private sector in that locality.
**(b) Requests for Authority for Military Family Housing.—**
(1) In submitting to Congress a request for authority to carry out the construction, acquisition, or improvement of military family housing, the Secretary concerned shall include in the request information on the net floor area of each unit of military family housing to be constructed, acquired, or improved under the authority.
(2) In this subsection, the term “net floor area”, in the case of a military family housing unit, means the total number of square feet of the floor space inside the exterior walls of the unit, excluding the floor area of an unfinished basement, an unfinished attic, a utility space, a garage, a carport, an open or insect-screened porch, a stairwell, and any space used for a solar-energy system.
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**(a) Local Comparability.—** In the construction, acquisition, and improvement of military family housing, the Secretary concerned shall ensure that the room patterns and floor areas of military family housing in a particular locality (as designated by the Secretary concerned for purposes of this section) are similar to room patterns and floor areas of similar housing in the private sector in that locality.
**(b) Requests for Authority for Military Family Housing.—**
(1) In submitting to Congress a request for authority to carry out the construction, acquisition, or improvement of military family housing, the Secretary concerned shall include in the request information on the net floor area of each unit of military family housing to be constructed, acquired, or improved under the authority.
(2) In this subsection, the term “net floor area”, in the case of a military family housing unit, means the total number of square feet of the floor space inside the exterior walls of the unit, excluding the floor area of an unfinished basement, an unfinished attic, a utility space, a garage, a carport, an open or insect-screened porch, a stairwell, and any space used for a solar-energy system.
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**(a)** The term “military construction” as used in this chapter or any other provision of law includes any construction, development, conversion, or extension of any kind carried out with respect to a military installation, whether to satisfy temporary or permanent requirements, or any acquisition of land or construction of a defense access road (as described in [section 210 of title 23](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section210&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(b)** A military construction project includes all military construction work, or any contribution authorized by this chapter, necessary to produce a complete and usable facility or a complete and usable improvement to an existing facility (or to produce such portion of a complete and usable facility or improvement as is specifically authorized by law).
**(c)** In this chapter and chapter 173 of this title:
(1) The term “appropriate committees of Congress” means the congressional defense committees and, with respect to any project to be carried out by, or for the use of, an intelligence component of the Department of Defense, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
(2) The term “facility” means a building, structure, or other improvement to real property.
(3) The term “life-cycle cost-effective”, with respect to a project, product, or measure, means that the sum of the present values of investment costs, capital costs, installation costs, energy costs, operating costs, maintenance costs, and replacement costs, as estimated for the lifetime of the project, product, or measure, does not exceed the base case (current or standard) for the practice, product, or measure.
(4) The term “mil
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**(a) Authority.—** The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department may enter into a cooperative agreement with a State or local government or other entity for the preservation, management, maintenance, and improvement of cultural resources located on a site authorized by subsection (b) and for the conduct of research regarding the cultural resources. Activities under the cooperative agreement shall be subject to the availability of funds to carry out the cooperative agreement.
**(b) Authorized Cultural Resources Sites.—** To be covered by a cooperative agreement under subsection (a), cultural resources must be located—
(1) on a military installation; or
(2) on a site outside of a military installation, but only if the cooperative agreement will directly relieve or eliminate current or anticipated restrictions that would or might restrict, impede, or otherwise interfere, whether directly or indirectly, with current or anticipated military training, testing, or operations on a military installation.
**(c) Application of Other Laws.—** Section 1535 and chapter 63 of title 31 shall not apply to a cooperative agreement entered into under this section.
**(d) Cultural Resource Defined.—** In this section, the term “cultural resource” means any of the following:
(1) A building, structure, site, district, or object eligible for or included in the National Register of Historic Places maintained under [section 302101 of title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section302101&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) Cultural items, as that term is defined in section 2(3) of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ([25 U.S.C. 3001(3)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section3001/
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**(a)** In lieu of constructing any family housing units authorized by law to be constructed, the Secretary concerned may acquire sole interest in existing family housing units that are privately owned or that are held by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, except that in foreign countries the Secretary concerned may acquire less than sole interest in existing family housing units.
**(b)** When authority provided by law to construct military family housing units is used to acquire existing family housing units under subsection (a), the authority includes authority to acquire interests in land.
**(c)** The net floor area of a family housing unit acquired under the authority of this section may not exceed the applicable limitation specified in [section 2826 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2826&num=0&edition=prelim). The Secretary concerned may waive the limitation set forth in the preceding sentence to family housing units acquired under this section during the five-year period beginning on February 10, 1996.
**(d)** Family housing units may not be acquired under this section through the exercise of eminent domain authority.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2827
tion during the period beginning Oct. 1, 1982, and end-
ing on the date of the enactment of the Military Con-
struction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1984 or Oct.
1, 1983, whichever is later, see section 11(3) of Pub. L.
97–214, set out as a note under section 2828 of this title.
§ 2826.
Military
family
housing:
local
com-
parability of room patterns and floor areas
(a) LOCAL COMPARABILITY.—In the construc-
tion, acquisition, and improvement of military
family housing, the Secretary concerned shall
ensure that the room patterns and floor areas of
military family housing in a particular locality
(as designated by the Secretary concerned for
purposes of this section) are similar to room
patterns and floor areas of similar housing in
the private sector in that locality.
(b) REQUESTS
FOR AUTHORITY
FOR MILITARY
FAMILY HOUSING.—(1) In submitting to Congress
a request for authority to carry out the con-
struction, acquisition, or improvement of mili-
tary family housing, the Secretary concerned
shall include in the request information on the
net floor area of each unit of military family
housing to be constructed, acquired, or im-
proved under the authority.
(2) In this subsection, the term ‘‘net floor
area’’, in the case of a military family housing
unit, means the total number of square feet of
the floor space inside the exterior walls of the
unit, excluding the floor area of an unfinished
basement, an unfinished attic, a utility space, a
garage, a carport, an open or insect-screened
porch, a stairwell, and any space used for a
solar-energy system.
(Added Pub. L. 97–214, § 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96
Stat. 159; amended Pub. L. 100–26, § 7(k)(3), Apr.
21, 1987, 101 Stat. 284; Pub. L. 102–190, div. B, tit
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