[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3648 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3648
To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense access road
resilience, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 9, 2019
Mr. Cunningham introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve defense access road
resilience, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Access Road Enhancement
Act''.
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD
RESILIENCE.
Section 210 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``(a)(1) The Secretary''
and all that follows through the end of paragraph (1) and
inserting the following:
``(a) Authorization.--
``(1) In general.--When defense access roads are certified
to the Secretary as important to the national defense by the
Secretary of Defense or such other official as the President
may designate, the Secretary is authorized, out of the funds
appropriated for defense access roads, to provide for--
``(A) the construction and maintenance of defense
access roads (including bridges, tubes, tunnels, and
culverts or other hydraulic appurtenances on those
roads) to--
``(i) military reservations;
``(ii) defense industry sites;
``(iii) air or sea ports that are necessary
for or are planned to be used for the
deployment or sustainment of members of the
Armed Forces, equipment, or supplies; or
``(iv) sources of raw materials;
``(B) the reconstruction or enhancement of, or
improvements to, those roads to ensure the continued
effective use of the roads, regardless of current or
projected increases in mean tides, recurrent flooding,
or other weather-related conditions or natural
disasters; and
``(C) replacing existing highways and highway
connections that are shut off from general public use
by necessary closures, closures due to mean sea level
fluctuation and flooding, or restrictions at--
``(i) military reservations;
``(ii) air or sea ports that are necessary
for or are planned to be used for the
deployment or sustainment of members of the
Armed Forces, equipment, or supplies; or
``(iii) defense industry sites.'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``the construction and
maintenance of'' and inserting ``construction, reconstruction,
resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of,
or enhancements to,'';
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) by striking ``him'' and inserting ``the
Secretary'';
(B) by striking ``construction, maintenance, and
repair work'' and inserting ``activities for
construction, maintenance, reconstruction, enhancement,
improvement, and repair'';
(C) by striking ``therein'' and inserting ``in
those areas''; and
(D) by striking ``condition for such training
purposes and for repairing the damage caused to such
highways by the operations of men and equipment in such
training.'' and inserting the following: ``condition
for--
``(1) that training; and
``(2) repairing the damage to those highways caused by--
``(A) weather-related events, increases in mean
high tide levels, recurrent flooding, or natural
disasters; or
``(B) the operations of men and equipment in such
training.'';
(4) in subsection (g)--
(A) by striking ``he'' and inserting ``the
Secretary'';
(B) by striking ``construction which has been'' and
inserting ``construction and other activities''; and
(C) by striking ``upon his demand'' and inserting
``upon demand by the Secretary''; and
(5) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the following:
``(i) Repair of Certain Damages and Infrastructure.--The funds
appropriated to carry out this section may be used to pay the cost of
repairing damage caused, or any infrastructure to mitigate a risk
posed, to a defense access road by recurrent or projected recurrent
flooding, sea level fluctuation, a natural disaster, or any other
current or projected change in applicable environmental conditions, if
the Secretary determines that continued access to a military
installation, defense industry site, air or sea port necessary for or
planned to be used for the deployment or sustainment of members of the
Armed Forces, equipment, or supplies, or to a source of raw materials,
has been or is projected to be impacted by those events or
conditions.''.
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