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USC-35 / Energy, environment and communities

Build installation, water, and energy-resilience improvements under specialized authorities

Carry out authorized installation-resilience, stormwater, shoreline, water-resilience, and energy-resilience/conservation projects, including specified off-installation infrastructure and conditional O&M-funded construction.

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Authority / instrument · USC-35

Installation and energy resilience projects

Energy, environment and communities

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense and Secretary concerned as allocated by each section

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Special project location and funding rules do not authorize unrestricted civilian infrastructure grants.

Recorded executor

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedEligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolUSC-35 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §2815

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense and Secretary concerned as allocated by each section

Other statutory tools

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

Availability and verification

Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Match the project to the applicable military-construction, minor-construction, community-infrastructure, buffer, reserve-facility, or defense-access-road authority.
  • For O&M-funded projects, make the section-specific certification and give the required seven-day notice; other §2815 projects generally require 14-day notice.

Limits & exclusions

  • The §2815 O&M cap is $125 million per military department per fiscal year; §2914 has a distinct $100 million annual O&M cap.
  • Special project location and funding rules do not authorize unrestricted civilian infrastructure grants.
  • FY2026 §2874 changes §2815(a) to expressly encompass unspecified minor projects via §2805; it does not erase project/funding predicates.

Funding conditions

  • Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed

Resources

  • Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense and Secretary concerned as allocated by each section; any delegation must be verified
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Partners & review

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

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §2815Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.
  • 10 U.S.C. §2815aOfficial 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.
  • 10 U.S.C. §2914Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.
  • Pub. L. 119-60, §2874Enacted amendment or statutory note reviewed.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedEligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.

Currentness: §2815(a) is read as amended by FY2026 §2874; the dated report requirement is not treated as an expiration of project authority. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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