2008 Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative Second Annual Report to Congress
Abstract
In 2002 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2003, Congress authorized Section 2684a of Title 10 United States Code (10 U.S.C. 2684a), which allows the Military Services to enter into agreements with private conservation organizations or with state and local governments. These agreements allow the Services to cost-share the acquisition of conservation/restrictive-use easements and other interests in land from willing sellers - a way to preserve high-value habitat and limit incompatible development around military ranges and installations. Congress amended the Section 2684a authority in Section 2822 of the NDAA for FY 2006 to set out an annual reporting requirement for the Department of Defense (DoD). The requirement directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the Military Departments and the Director, Test Resource Management Center, to report on projects undertaken under the authority provided by Section 2684a. A second reporting requirement, set out in the NDAA for FY 2008, directs the Secretary of Defense to report on the steps taken, or planned to be taken, to address the conclusions and recommendations that make up Chapter 6 of the initial REPI Report submitted in 2007. This document is the second annual report to be submitted in response to this Congressional requirement. It describes DoD's conservation and compatible land use efforts funded under REPI utilizing 10 U.S.C. 2684a Congressional authority. The Report also describes how use of the authority advances DoD's Sustainable Ranges Initiative.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- AD1180091
Entities
People
- Beverly Worster
- Brad Geotsch
- Christopher Long
- Deborah Poppell
- Ed Rybold
- Frederick D Lewis
- Hannah Anderson
- Ken Quigley
- Lea Hong
- Mark Hauck
- Martin Skoglund
- Mary Niez
- Michele Richards
- Nancy Natoli
- Robert Gregory
- Robert Hill
- Steven Gordon
- Tony Danesi
- Tracy Bronson
- Wallace Tucker
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense