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10 U.S.C. § 2285 — Department of Defense Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative
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**(a) Designation.—** The programs, practices, and activities carried out pursuant to this section shall be known collectively as the “Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative of the Department of Defense”.
**(b) Hardening and Quick Recovery.—** In carrying out military installation resilience plans pursuant to [section 2864 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2864&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the development by the Department of Defense of requirements for backup utilities, communications, and transportation to ensure that the critical infrastructure of Department facilities is hardened, developed, and constructed for quick recovery from natural disasters and the impacts of extreme weather.
**(c) Sustainment and Modernization.—** The Secretary shall develop sustainment and modernization requirements for facilities of the Department in connection with climate resilience.
**(d) Collaboration in Planning With Local Communities.—** The Secretary shall develop, within existing frameworks for collaborative activities between military installations and State and local communities, and in addition to the requirements of [section 2864(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2864/c&num=0&edition=prelim), a framework that authorizes and directs installation commanders to engage with State, regional, and local agencies, and with local communities, on planning for climate resilience, to enhance efficient response to impacts of extreme weather and secure collaborative investment in infrastructure that is resilient to the current and projected impacts of extreme weather.
**(e) Testing and Training Range Lands.—**
(1) **Practices fo
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**(a) Designation.—** The programs, practices, and activities carried out pursuant to this section shall be known collectively as the “Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative of the Department of Defense”.
**(b) Hardening and Quick Recovery.—** In carrying out military installation resilience plans pursuant to [section 2864 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2864&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the development by the Department of Defense of requirements for backup utilities, communications, and transportation to ensure that the critical infrastructure of Department facilities is hardened, developed, and constructed for quick recovery from natural disasters and the impacts of extreme weather.
**(c) Sustainment and Modernization.—** The Secretary shall develop sustainment and modernization requirements for facilities of the Department in connection with climate resilience.
**(d) Collaboration in Planning With Local Communities.—** The Secretary shall develop, within existing frameworks for collaborative activities between military installations and State and local communities, and in addition to the requirements of [section 2864(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2864/c&num=0&edition=prelim), a framework that authorizes and directs installation commanders to engage with State, regional, and local agencies, and with local communities, on planning for climate resilience, to enhance efficient response to impacts of extreme weather and secure collaborative investment in infrastructure that is resilient to the current and projected impacts of extreme weather.
**(e) Testing and Training Range Lands.—**
(1) **Practices for sustainment of lands.—** — The Secretary shall develop and implement practices to sustain the lands of the military testing and training ranges of the Department, and the lands of testing and training ranges on State-owned National Guard installations, through the adaptation and resilience of such lands to the current and projected impacts of extreme weather to ensure the ongoing availability of such lands to military personnel, weapon systems, and equipment for testing and training purposes.
(2) **Training and education on sustainment of lands.—** — The Secretary shall develop a program of training and education for members of the Armed Forces (including the reserve components) on the importance of the sustainment of the lands of the military testing and training ranges as described in paragraph (1).
(3) **Investment in resilience of lands.—** — The Secretary shall use existing programs of the Department, including the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program of the Department (or such successor program), to provide for investments determined appropriate by the Secretary in the lands of the military testing and training ranges, to increase the resilience and adaptation of such lands to the current and projected impacts of extreme weather for testing and training purposes in connection with current and projected testing and training requirements in the short- and long-term.
**(f) Use of Certain Technologies.—** The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to increase the use of low emission, emission-free, and net-zero-emission energy technologies in the operations, programs, projects, and activities of the Department, provided the use is cost effective over the life-cycle of the investment.
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**(a) Plans Required.—**
(1) At a time interval prescribed by the Secretary concerned (but not less frequently than once every 10 years), the commander of each major military installation under the jurisdiction of the Secretary shall ensure that an installation master plan is developed to address environmental planning, sustainable design and development, sustainable range planning, real property master planning, military installation resilience, and transportation planning.
(2) To address the requirements under paragraph (1), each installation master plan shall include consideration of—
(A) planning for compact and infill development;
(B) horizontal and vertical mixed-use development;
(C) the full lifecycle costs of real property planning decisions;
(D) capacity planning through the establishment of growth boundaries around cantonment areas to focus development towards the core and preserve range and training space; and
(E) energy and climate resiliency efforts and military installation resilience.
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(A) The commander of a major military installation shall develop and update the master plan for that major military installation in consultation with representatives of the government of the State in which the installation is located and representatives of local governments in the vicinity of the installation to improve cooperation and consistency between the Department of Defense and such governments in addressing each component of the master plan described in paragraph (1).
(B) The consultation required by subparagraph (A) is in addition to the consultation specifically required by subsection (b)(1) in connection with the transportation component of the master plan for a major military installation.
**(b) Transportation Component.—**
(1) The t
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**(a)**
(1) There is a Secretary of Defense, who is the head of the Department of Defense, appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(2) A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense—
(A) within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force in a grade below O–7; or
(B) within 10 years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force in the grade of O–7 or above.
**(b)** The Secretary is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense. Subject to the direction of the President and to this title and section 2 of the National Security Act of 1947 ([50 U.S.C. 3002](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3002&num=0&edition=prelim)) he has authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense.
**(c)** The Secretary shall report annually in writing to the President and the Congress on the expenditures, work, and accomplishments of the Department of Defense during the period covered by the report, together with—
(1) a report from each military department on the expenditures, work, and accomplishments of that department;
(2) itemized statements showing the savings of public funds, and the eliminations of unnecessary duplications, made under sections 125 and 191 of this title; and
(3) such recommendations as he considers appropriate.
**(d)** Unless specifically prohibited by law, the Secretary may, without being relieved of his responsibility, perform any of his functions or duties, or exercise any of his powers through, or with the aid of, such persons in, or organizations of, the Department of Defense
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2285
(C) Procurement.
(D) Other transaction agreements.
(E) Military construction.
(3) The budget display shall include funding
data for each of the military department’s re-
spective activities related to explosive ord-
nance disposal, including—
(A) operation and maintenance; and
(B) overseas contingency operations.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘explosive ordnance’’ has the
meaning given such term in section 283(d) of
this title.
(2) The term ‘‘explosive ordnance disposal’’
means the detection, identification, on-site
evaluation, rendering safe, exploitation, recov-
ery, and final disposal of explosive ordnance.
(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title III, § 311(a),
Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1708; amended Pub. L.
116–92, div. A, title X, § 1052, title XVII,
§ 1731(a)(36), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1590, 1814;
Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title III, § 352(a), Jan. 1,
2021, 134 Stat. 3544; Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title
XVI, § 1621(d)(3), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2171.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2024—Subsec. (b)(3)(E). Pub. L. 118–159, which directed
substitution of ‘‘Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Bi-
ological Defense Policy and Programs’’ for ‘‘Nuclear,
Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs’’, was exe-
cuted by making the substitution for ‘‘Nuclear, Chem-
ical, and Biological Defense programs’’, to reflect the
probable intent of Congress.
2021—Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 116–283, § 352(a)(1), in-
serted ‘‘and’’ before ‘‘integration’’ and substituted ‘‘the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
and Low Intensity Conflict’’ for ‘‘an Assistant Sec-
retary of Defense’’.
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 116–283, § 352(a)(2), substituted
‘‘for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict’’
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