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IND-44 / Energy, environment and communities

Cost-share buffers, easements, water rights and resilience with partners

REPI-type agreements acquire willing-seller interests and support habitat, encroachment avoidance and installation resilience; can match other federal conservation/resilience programs.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-44 · Property & leases

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense or military department

Property & leases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Eligible government or conservation partner
  • Mission compatibility and owner consent
  • Fair-market-value/federal-share conditions with specific excess-value notice exception

Limits & exclusions

  • Not compulsory conservation taking
  • Only mission-related scope; interests must protect statutory purpose

Funding conditions

  • O&M, or RDT&E for primarily RDT&E installations, as expressly permitted; partner match and long-term management terms documented.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff
  • Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy

Resources

  • Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor

Approval

  • Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official

Execution

  • USACE district real-estate/construction offices
  • NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands
  • AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Partners & review

  • Landowners / developers / local governments
  • Environmental regulators and real-estate counsel

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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