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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 · Sec. 2849

Sec. 2849. GUIDANCE REGARDING MAINTENANCE OF AGGREGATE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF FACILITIES OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

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## SEC. 2849 GUIDANCE REGARDING MAINTENANCE OF AGGREGATE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF FACILITIES OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ###
(a)In General Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall issue guidance regarding the maintenance of the aggregate square footage of facilities of the Department of Defense, which shall be designated as “1 in 1 out guidance”, pursuant to the requirements of this section. ###
(b)Maintenance of Square Footage Guidance required under subsection
(a)shall ensure that every square footage of growth of a facility is offset with an equivalent reduction in square footage by— ####
(1)a funded disposal action; or ####
(2)identifying facilities to be entered into a contingency operational status. ###
(c)Documentation Upon completion of the design phase of a project that results in the growth of a facility, the Secretary of Defense shall update the Department of Defense Form 1391 for such project to identify the reduction in square footage to accompany such increase. ###
(d)Submission Not later than 15 days after the date of submission of the defense budget materials for fiscal year 2026 (as submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code), and for each subsequent submission thereafter, each Secretary of a military department shall submit to the congressional defense committees— ####
(1)a list of facilities scheduled for a disposal action described in subsection
(b)for the fiscal year covered by the submission and the subsequent fiscal year; and ####
(2)a list of facilities, disaggregated by military installation, for which a disposal action has been completed during the fiscal year preceding the date of the submission. ###
(e)Application This section and the requirements of this section shall apply to— ####
(1)military construction or unspecified minor military construction (as defined under section 2805 of title 10, United States Code) funded in fiscal year 2027 or a subsequent fiscal year; and ####
(2)other sources of growth on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. ###
(f)Exceptions This section and the requirements of this section do not apply to the following: ####
(1)The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system program. ####
(2)Public shipyards covered by the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. ####
(3)MHPI housing (as defined under section 606 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. 2871 note). ####
(4)The construction project for the headquarters facilities for the United States Space Command. ###
(g)Growth of a Facility Defined In this section, the term “growth of a facility” means, with respect to a facility (as defined in section 2801 of title 10, United States Code), an increase in the square footage of such facility due to— ####
(1)carrying out a military construction project or an unspecified minor military construction project (pursuant to section 2805 of title 10, United States Code); ####
(2)acquisition of an existing facility on land owned by a military department; ####
(3)a gift of construction; ####
(4)construction of a facility carried out through the use of nonappropriated funds, private funds, or family housing funds, if the facility will be sustained with appropriated operation and maintenance funds; or ####
(5)the use of appropriated funds to sustain a facility that was previously sustained with nonappropriated funds, private funds, or family housing funds.
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