Sec. 16. Required reports
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No later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year in which the Secretary carries out activities under this Act using amounts in the Account, the Secretary of Defense shall transmit a report to the congressional defense committees of— the amount and nature of the deposits into, and the expenditures from, the Account during such fiscal year; the amount and nature of other expenditures made pursuant to section 12 during such fiscal year; the amount and nature of anticipated deposits to be made into, and the anticipated expenditures to be made from, the Account during the first fiscal year commencing after the submission of the report; and the amount and nature of anticipated expenditures to be made pursuant to section 12 during the first fiscal year commencing after the submission of the report.
The report for a fiscal year shall include the following: The obligations and expenditures from the Account during the fiscal year, identified by subaccount and installation, for each military department and Defense Agency. The fiscal year in which appropriations for such expenditures were made and the fiscal year in which funds were obligated for such expenditure. Each military construction project for which such obligations and expenditures were made, identified by installation and project title.
A description and explanation of the extent, if any, to which expenditures for military construction projects for the fiscal year differed from proposals for projects and funding levels that were included in the justification transmitted to Congress under subsection (b), or otherwise, for the funding proposals for the Account for such fiscal year, including explanations of any failure to carry out military construction projects that were so proposed and any expenditures for military construction projects that were not so proposed.
An estimate of the net revenues to be received from property disposals to be completed during the first fiscal year commencing after the submission of the report at military installations approved for consolidation, closure, or realignment under this Act. Not later than 60 days after the closure of the Account under section 14, the Secretary shall transmit to the congressional defense committees a report containing an accounting of all the funds deposited into and expended from the Account or otherwise expended under this Act with respect to such installations, and any amount remaining in the account.
As part of the budget request for fiscal year 2021, and for each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 2032, for the Department, the Secretary shall transmit to the congressional defense committees— a schedule of the closure actions to be carried out under this Act in the fiscal year for which the request is made and an estimate of the total expenditures required and cost savings to be achieved by each such closure and of the time period in which these savings are to be achieved in each case, together with the Secretary’s assessment of the environmental effects of such actions; a description of the military installations, including those under construction and those planned for construction, to which functions are to be transferred as a result of such closure, together with the Secretary’s assessment of the environmental effects of such transfers; a description of the closure actions already carried out at each military installation since the date of the installation’s approval for closure under this Act and the current status of the closure of the installation, including whether— a redevelopment authority has been recognizes by the Secretary for the installation; the screening of property at the installation for other Federal use has been completed; and a redevelopment plan has been agreed to by the redevelopment authority for the installation; a description of redevelopment plans for military installations approved for closure under this Act, the quantity of property remaining to be disposed of at each installation as part of its closure, and the quantity of property already disposed of at each installation; a list of Federal agencies that have requested property during the screening process for each military installation approved for closure under this Act, including the date of transfer or anticipated transfer of the property to such agencies, the acreage involved in such transfers, and an explanation for any delays in such transfer; a list of known environmental remediation issues at each military installation approved for closure under this Act, including the acreage affected by these issues, an estimate of the cost to complete such environmental remediation, and the plans (and timelines) to address such environmental remediation; and an estimate of the date for the completion of all closure actions at each military installation approved for consolidation, closure, or realignment under this Act.