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10 U.S.C. § 2824 — Authorization for acquisition of existing family housing in lieu of construction
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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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**(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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**(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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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2822
title VII, § 2713(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 4042; Pub. L.
100–180, div. B, subdiv. 3, title I, § 2307, Dec. 4, 1987, 101
Stat. 1216; Pub. L. 101–189, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2801,
Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1646; Pub. L. 101–510, div. B, title
XXVIII, § 2811, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1788, provided for
agreements and contracts relating to military housing
rental guarantee program, prior to repeal by Pub. L.
102–190, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2809(b), (c), Dec. 5, 1991,
105 Stat. 1543, such repeal not to affect the validity of
any contract entered into before Dec. 5, 1991, under sec-
tion 802 of Pub. L. 98–115 as in effect on Dec. 4, 1991. See
section 2836 of this title.
FAMILY HOUSING CONSTRUCTED OVERSEAS
Pub. L. 98–115, title VIII, § 803, Oct. 11, 1983, 97 Stat.
784, as amended by Pub. L. 98–407, title VIII, § 812, Aug.
28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1524; Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XIII,
§ 1302(f), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1669, provided that any
contract entered into for the construction of military
family housing for the Department of Defense in a for-
eign country was to require the use of housing fab-
ricated in the United States by a United States con-
tractor or, in the case of concrete housing, the use of
housing produced in a plant that was fabricated in the
United States by a United States company, and for
which the materials, fixtures, and equipment used in
the construction (other than cement, sand, and aggre-
gates) were manufactured in the United States, prior to
repeal by Pub. L. 107–314, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804,
Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2705.
DEFINITIONS
Pub. L. 116–92, div. B, title XXX, § 3001(a), Dec. 20,
2019, 133 Stat. 1916, as amended by Pub. L. 118–159, div.
B, title XXVIII, § 2827, Dec. 2
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