Sec. 2880. Deployment of existing construction materials
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a plan to utilize, transfer, or donate to States on the southern border of the United States all existing excess border wall construction materials, including bollards, for constructing a permanent physical barrier to stop illicit human and vehicle traffic along the border of the United States with Mexico. Not later than 15 days after submitting to Congress the plan required under subsection (a), taking into account ongoing audits being conducted by the Defense Contract Audit Agency and ongoing construction contract negotiations by the Army Corps of Engineers, so long as any ongoing audits or construction contract negotiations are not a cause for delay, the Secretary shall work with the Defense Logistics Agency to execute that plan until the Department of Defense is no longer incurring any costs to maintain, store, or protect the materials specified under such subsection.
Any State requesting border wall construction materials made available under this section must certify, in writing, that the materials it accepts will be exclusively used for the construction of a permanent physical barrier along the border of the United States with Mexico. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report containing the following: A detailed description of the decision process of the Secretary to forgo the excess property disposal process of the Department of Defense and instead pay to store border wall panels.
A list of entities the Department is paying for use of their privately owned land to store unused border wall construction materials, with appropriate action taken to protect personally identifiable information, such as by making the list of entities available in an annex that is labeled as controlled unclassified information. An explanation of the process through which the Department contracted with private landowners to store unused border wall construction materials, including whether there was a competitive contracting process and whether the landowners have instituted an inventory review system.
A description of any investigations by the Inspector General of the Department that have been opened related to storing border wall construction materials.