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IND-53 / Energy, environment and communities

Support defense-dependent communities, industrial diversification and workforce infrastructure

Grant and cooperate with affected communities for reuse, adjustment, diversification, encroachment/resilience, public infrastructure and defense-industrial workforce support.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-53 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense

Other statutory tools

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

  • Applicable impact/dependency or mission-risk finding
  • Program criteria and nonfederal share where required
  • FY26 expressly includes health care, housing and defense-critical infrastructure/services in §2391(b)(5)(B)(iv)

Limits & exclusions

  • Not a general nationwide economic development program
  • Expansion thresholds and program-specific eligibility apply

Funding conditions

  • OLDCC appropriations; diversification implementation generally10% nonfederal share; selected funds may count toward other federal grant matching as statute permits.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Installation and affected community
  • Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation

Resources

  • OLDCC program appropriations and authorized nonfederal share

Approval

Execution

  • OLDCC grants officials and State/local grantees

Partners & review

  • State and local governments
  • Eligible nonprofit member-owned utilities
  • Commerce / other grant agencies where relevant

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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