Sec. 342. Global bulk fuel management and delivery
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Subchapter III of chapter 173 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary of Defense shall designate a combatant command to be responsible for bulk fuel management and delivery of the Department on a global basis. . The table of contents for such subchapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 2927. Global bulk fuel management and delivery. . Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall— make the designation required under section 2927 of title 10, United States Code (as added by paragraph (1)); and provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives notice of the combatant command so designated.
The commander of the combatant command designated under section 2927 of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall prepare and submit to the congressional defense committees a strategy to develop the infrastructure and programs necessary to optimally support global bulk fuel management of the Department of Defense. The strategy under paragraph
(1)shall include the following additional elements: A description of the current organizational responsibility for bulk fuel management of the Department, organized by geographic combatant command, including with respect to ordering, storage, and strategic and tactical transportation. A description of any legacy bulk fuel management assets of each of the geographic combatant commands. A description of the operational plan to exercise such assets to ensure full functionality and to repair, upgrade, or replace such assets as necessary. An identification of the resources required for any such repairs, upgrades, or replacements. A description of the current programs relating to platforms, weapon systems, or research and development, that are aimed at managing fuel constraints by decreasing demand for fuel. An assessment of current and projected threats to forward-based bulk fuel delivery, storage, and distribution systems, and an assessment, based on such current and projected threats, of attrition to bulk fuel infrastructure, including storage and distribution systems, in a conflict involving near-peer foreign countries. An assessment of current days of supply guidance, petroleum war reserve requirements, and prepositioned war reserve stocks, based on operational tempo associated with distributed operations in a contested environment. An identification of the resources required to address any changes to such guidance, requirements, or stocks recommended as the result of such assessment. An identification of any global shortfall with respect to bulk fuel management, organized by geographic combatant command, and a prioritized list of investment recommendations to address each shortfall identified. In preparing the strategy under paragraph (1), the commander of the combatant command specified in such paragraph shall coordinate with subject matter experts of the Joint Staff, the geographic combatant commands, the United States Transportation Command, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the military departments. Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2022 for the Defense Logistics Agency (Energy), not more than 50 percent may be obligated or expended before the date on which the notice under subsection (a)(3)(B) is provided. Section 2854 of the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 ( Public Law 116–283 ) is amended— in subsection (b), by striking The organizational element designated pursuant to subsection
(a)and inserting The Secretary of Defense ; in subsection (c), by striking subsection
(b)and inserting subsection
(a); by striking subsections
(a)and (d); and by redesignating subsections
(b)and (c), as amended by paragraphs
(1)and (2), as subsections
(a)and (b), respectively.
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