Sec. 1095. DESIGNATION OF A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGIC ARCTIC PORT
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## SEC. 1095 DESIGNATION OF A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGIC ARCTIC PORT ###
(a)Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the Arctic is a region of growing strategic importance to the national security interest of the United States and that the Department of Defense must better align its posture and capabilities to meet the growing array of challenges in the region. ###
(b)Arctic Defined In this section, the term “Arctic” has the meaning given that term in section 112 of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4111). ###
(c)Report Required Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Commanding General of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Administrator of the Maritime Administration, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing an assessment of the future security requirements for one or more strategic ports in the Arctic. ###
(d)Contents of Report Consistent with the updated military strategy for the protection of United States national security interests in the Arctic region set forth in the reports required under section 1068 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92; 129 Stat. 992), the report required under subsection
(c)shall include— ####
(1)the amount of sufficient and suitable space needed to create capacity for port and other necessary infrastructure for at least one of each of type of Navy or Coast Guard vessel, including an Arleigh Burke class destroyer of the Navy, or a national security cutter or a heavy polar ice breaker of the Coast Guard; ####
(2)the amount of sufficient and suitable space needed to create capacity for equipment and fuel storage, technological infrastructure, and civil infrastructure to support military and civilian operations, including— #####
(A)aerospace warning; #####
(B)maritime surface and subsurface warning; #####
(C)maritime control and defense; #####
(D)maritime domain awareness; #####
(E)homeland defense; #####
(F)defense support to civil authorities; #####
(G)humanitarian relief; #####
(H)search and rescue; #####
(I)disaster relief; #####
(J)oil spill response; #####
(K)medical stabilization and evacuation; and #####
(L)meteorological measurements and forecasting; ####
(3)an identification of proximity and road access to an airport designated as a commercial service airport by the Federal Aviation Administration that is capable of supporting military and civilian aircraft for operations designated in paragraph (2); and ####
(4)a description of the requirements, to include infrastructure and installations, communications, and logistics necessary to improve response effectiveness to support military and civilian operations designated in paragraph (2). ###
(e)Designation of Strategic Arctic Ports ####
(1)Designation criteria and recommendations Upon completion of the report required under subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Commanding General of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, the Administrator of the Maritime Administration, shall— #####
(A)establish criteria for the designation of a port as a “Department of Defense Strategic Arctic Port”; and #####
(B)if the report required under subsection
(c)includes a determination that one or more strategic Arctic ports are necessary to fulfill future security requirements in the Arctic, not later than 18 months after the date of the completion of the report, submit to the congressional defense committees recommendations for the designation of one or more ports as Department of Defense Strategic Arctic Ports. ####
(2)Cost estimates The recommendations submitted under paragraph (1)(B) shall include the estimated cost of sufficient construction necessary to initiate and sustain expected operations at the ports designated as Department of Defense Strategic Arctic Ports. ###
(f)Rule of Construction Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize any additional appropriations for the Department of Defense for the establishment of any port recommended pursuant to this section.
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Sec. 1095
DESIGNATION OF A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGIC ARCTIC PORT
Stat.129 Stat. 992
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