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Find a mission-related route for installation energy, utilities, cleanup, resilience or supporting community infrastructure.

8 records in this family–mechanism intersection. These editorial groups do not expand legal scope.

What this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.

Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11

IND-43 · Intergovernmental shared services

Buy, sell or share installation services with State/local/tribal governments

Enter sole-source IGSAs for services already provided by one party for its own use, seeking mission effectiveness or economies; FY26 expressly includes ordnance disposal.

What this is not / limit: Cannot circumvent A-76

Executing role: USACE district real-estate/construction offices; NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands; AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Authority holder

Secretary concerned

Eligibility gate

  • Best-interest/efficiency finding
  • Existing own-use service by provider
  • Downstream awarded contracts competitive
  • Annual savings-pilot certification where relevant

Funding condition

  • O&M for support; reimbursements credited; at least25% savings pilot for approved sustainment/restoration/modernization extended through Sep30,2030.

All recorded limits

  • Term up to10years
  • Security guard and firefighting functions excluded from definition; mutual-aid arrangements preserved
  • Cannot circumvent A-76
  • FY26 definition includes Yap and Palau for this purpose
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IND-44 · Mission-compatible land conservation

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.

What this is not / limit: Not compulsory conservation taking

Executing role: USACE district real-estate/construction offices; NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands; AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense or military department

Eligibility gate

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

Funding condition

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

All recorded limits

  • Not compulsory conservation taking
  • Only mission-related scope; interests must protect statutory purpose
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IND-45 · Utility privatization

Convey utility systems and contract for long-term service and upgrades

Transfer military utility systems to utility entities; procure services and contribute authorized project funds toward system improvements. FY26 broadens post-conveyance monetary contributions.

What this is not / limit: Utility ownership does not transfer military mission authority

Executing role: DLA Energy Installation Energy or Utility Services as appropriate; Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC

Authority holder

Secretary of military department

Eligibility gate

  • Competition or valid exception
  • Business-case cost-effectiveness for terms >10 years
  • Reliability, resilience/cybersecurity, health/safety and utility regulation
  • Authorized/appropriated improvement project for §2688(k)

Funding condition

  • Utility service appropriations; authorized MILCON contributions under(h)/(k); receipts merged into specified appropriations.

All recorded limits

  • Service terms normally10years, up to50years on finding
  • Army civil works systems excluded
  • Utility ownership does not transfer military mission authority
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IND-48 · Utility conservation partnerships

Accept utility rebates and obtain utility-financed conservation improvements

Participate in demand/conservation programs, accept generally available incentives, and let utilities advance eligible design/implementation costs for repayment.

What this is not / limit: Not unrestricted private gift acceptance or loan borrowing

Executing role: DLA Energy Installation Energy or Utility Services as appropriate; Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; authorized Service Secretary

Eligibility gate

  • Cost-effective conservation/demand program
  • Repayment terms no less favorable than utility’s most favored customer
  • Government title to installed devices at agreed point

Funding condition

  • Repayment subject to appropriations from utility-service funds; authorized incentives accepted.

All recorded limits

  • Incentives must be generally available and consistent with statutory goals
  • Not unrestricted private gift acceptance or loan borrowing
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IND-49 · Energy sales and retained proceeds

Sell electricity from alternate-energy and cogeneration facilities

Sell or authorize contractor sale of qualifying generation to utilities and credit proceeds to specified energy accounts.

What this is not / limit: Not general commercial power enterprise authority

Executing role: DLA Energy Installation Energy or Utility Services as appropriate; Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC

Authority holder

Secretary of military department

Eligibility gate

  • Qualifying energy/cogeneration facility or land under jurisdiction
  • Prices/terms consistent with applicable utility law
  • Congressional notice for funded construction

Funding condition

  • Receipts to energy appropriation; construction uses subject to appropriations and14day notification; geothermal installation uses restricted.

All recorded limits

  • Not general commercial power enterprise authority
  • Geothermal receipts split50/50 with installation special account under statute
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IND-52 · Environmental restoration

Fund cleanup and contract/cooperate for defense environmental remediation

Carry out Defense Environmental Restoration Program, including offsite contamination and eligible former/Guard sites; obtain services from agencies, tribes, owners of covenant property and conservation nonprofits.

What this is not / limit: Cannot reimburse regulatory enforcement through §2701(d)

Executing role: USACE district real-estate/construction offices; NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands; AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; designated OSD program office

Eligibility gate

  • Defense-related site/response responsibility
  • Consult EPA; CERCLA federal-facility requirements
  • Reimbursement agreement generally no more than2years except BRAC
  • FY26 PFAS destruction/disposal technologies must be cost-effective and regulator-permitted/approved

Funding condition

  • Environmental restoration/BRAC and other legally available accounts; §2703 restrictions apply.

All recorded limits

  • Cannot reimburse regulatory enforcement through §2701(d)
  • Agreement cannot change legal cleanup standards
  • Not universal environmental waiver
Contracts & purchasesCooperation & exchanges
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IND-53 · Community economic adjustment

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.

What this is not / limit: Not a general nationwide economic development program

Executing role: OLDCC grants officials and State/local grantees

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

Eligibility gate

  • 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)

Funding condition

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

All recorded limits

  • Not a general nationwide economic development program
  • Expansion thresholds and program-specific eligibility apply
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IND-54 · Defense-community infrastructure

Co-fund civilian infrastructure supporting installation readiness and quality of life

Provide grants/cooperative agreements for community transport, schools, hospitals, utilities, emergency-response and other facilities, including FY26 demolition additions.

What this is not / limit: Not direct subsidy to any private developer merely near a base

Executing role: OLDCC grants officials and State/local grantees

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; OLDCC executes

Eligibility gate

  • Eligible State/local or nonprofit member-owned utility applicant and qualifying location/ownership
  • Selection criteria and ordinarily30% contribution with statutory rural/national-security relief

Funding condition

  • Program appropriations; may remain available until expended where appropriated accordingly; appropriations allocation and grant competition still required.

All recorded limits

  • FY26 two-year temporary priorities and allocation rules apply
  • Not direct subsidy to any private developer merely near a base
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