Posts Tagged ‘military construction’

The Department of Defense is considering improving and expanding the Defense Access Roads program, according to the committee report accompanying the fiscal 2013 military construction and veterans affairs spending bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. The changes are intended to address the strict eligibility requirements of the program, which is the only mechanism DOD has for upgrading roads outside of military installations. To be eligible for aid through the DAR program, an installation must demonstrate that traffic congestion for commuters has doubled, an extremely high hurdle for urban areas to satisfy …

At some BRAC 2005 closures, additional cleanup requirements being imposed by state regulators could delay the transfer of properties to local redevelopment authorities, according to the report of the House Appropriations Committee accompanying the fiscal 2013 spending bill for military construction and veterans affairs. As a result, the committee encourages DOD’s deputy undersecretary for installations and environment to work with the Environmental Protection Agency to reach “remediation agreements with standards allowed under current BRAC law …

Military construction programs would receive $10.6 billion under the draft fiscal 2013 spending bill approved Tuesday by the Senate Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, a $2.4 billion drop from current year funding. The bill’s recommendation falls $568.9 million below the administration’s budget request, with the shortfall coming out of funds for active component military construction. That account would receive $7.1 billion, a decline of $2.6 billion from FY 2012 …

The Army would be prohibited from relocating units at installations with modest concentrations of civilian workers, under the fiscal 2013 spending bill approved by the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday. The provision would bar the Army from spending milcon appropriations to move units from posts at which the number of civilian employees of the Army and contractors exceeds 10 percent of the total number of Army service members …

Funding for all military construction programs would fall $2.4 billion from the current year to $10.6 billion in fiscal 2013 under the draft spending bill for military construction and veterans affairs released by the House Appropriations Committee Monday. A deliberate pause in milcon proposed by the Air Force would account for $839 million of the reduction. A decline in requirements for BRAC 2005 accounts for a small decrease as well …

House appropriators would provide $519 billion for the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill, $8 billion more than Senate appropriators have allocated, under the draft funding allocations released Tuesday by the House Appropriations Committee. The 11 other spending bills would receive lower funding under the House allocations, which follow the $1.028 trillion budget resolution drafted by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan …

After spending $11 million over the last several years on projects meant to raise the military value of Naval Submarine Base New London, the state of Connecticut is on the lookout for its next project. “If you could get something going next week I’d come and break ground for it,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said Thursday. One strong possibility is a project to improve the base’s energy efficiency …

The Japanese government has agreed to increase its direct contribution for the relocation of an estimated 4,700 Marines from Okinawa to Guam by $700 million to $3.5 billion. The U.S. government asked for the higher contribution in February, a request Japan had resisted until now. The increased commitment from Japan comes even as DOD has scaled down the scope of the realignment, which until recently had called for 8,600 Marines to move …

The Army’s $3.6 billion budget request for military construction and family housing for fiscal 2013 is 32 percent lower than the current year, a pause necessitated by pending changes in the service’s end strength, force structure and stationing, Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary for installations, energy and environment, told lawmakers Tuesday. “The milcon budget before you supports an Army in transition while at war …

The decision by House Republicans to set the fiscal 2013 discretionary spending limit $19 billion below the one in last August’s Budget Control Act likely guarantees the two chambers will wrangle over next year’s appropriations bills. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have indicated they will stick with the higher spending limit of $1.047 trillion in the statute …