§2285 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

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The Department of Defense must run a Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative to make military facilities and lands stronger against extreme weather and natural disasters. Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative of the Department of Defense — the DoD’s set of programs and actions to protect bases, training areas, and related infrastructure from current and future extreme weather. The Secretary of Defense must make sure installation resilience plans (under section 2864) include backup utilities, communications, and transportation so critical facilities can recover fast. The Secretary must set rules to maintain and modernize buildings for climate resilience. The Secretary must also create a framework, beyond section 2864(c), that lets installation commanders work with state, regional, and local agencies and communities on resilient planning and shared infrastructure investment. The Secretary must protect and adapt testing and training lands (including State National Guard ranges), train service members about that work, and use existing programs, including the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (or its successor), for resilience investments. The Secretary must increase use of low-emission, emission-free, and net-zero energy technologies when they are cost-effective over the life of the project.

Title 10, §2285

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(a)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)In carrying out military installation resilience plans pursuant to section 2864 of this title, 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)The Secretary shall develop sustainment and modernization requirements for facilities of the Department in connection with climate resilience.

(d)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, 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)(1)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)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)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)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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2024—Subsecs. (b) to (f). Pub. L. 118–159 redesignated subsecs. (d) to (f) as (c) to (e), respectively, and the second subsec. (b), relating to use of certain technologies, as (f).

§2285 Department of Defense Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative

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Title 10, §2285

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