Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI)
Abstract
In Section 2822 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006, Congress set out a new annual reporting requirement for the Department of Defense (DoD). The new requirement directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the Military Departments and the Director of the DoD Test Resource and Management Center, to report on projects undertaken under the authority provided by Section 2684(a) of Title 10 United States Code (U.S.C.), enacted in 2002 as part of the NDAA for FY 2003. Section 2684(a) allows the Services to enter into agreements with private conservation organizations or with state and local governments. These agreements allow the ranges and installations to cost-share the acquisition of restrictive/conservation easements from willing sellers - a way to preserve high-value habitat and limit incompatible development around these ranges and installations. The following Report is the first such report submitted in response to this Congressional requirement. It describes DoD's conservation and compatible land use buffer efforts funded under the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) and utilizing 10 U.S.C. 2684(a) Congressional authority. The Report will also address how DoDs use of the authority advances the Departments Sustainable Ranges Initiative (SRI).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- AD1180097
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense