EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on USC-32

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

This is a record-specific route, not an additional institutional directory node. Current assignment must be verified.

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters

Executing office · routing lead

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

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

Intake

Use the responsible program or contracting office for this instrument.

The recorded role is not itself a general application endpoint.

What this role does not control

A routing lead does not establish funds, an individual delegation or approval of the proposed action.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedQualifying payments may be eligible military-construction project costs; §2694c expressly permits specified O&M, MILCON, RDT&E, and Guam-account funds subject to availability. 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.

Selected instrument

USC-32 · Environmental mitigation markets

Buy wetland, conservation, and water-quality mitigation credits

Pay approved wetland mitigation banks or consolidated user sites, conservation banks or in-lieu-fee sponsors, and pollutant banking or water-quality trading programs to mitigate effects of qualifying military activities.

What this is not / limit: These are distinct mitigation mechanisms with their own predicates, not a general power to speculate in environmental credits.

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

Authority holder

Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters

Eligibility gate

  • Use the approved program and applicable environmental regulatory guidance for the specific type of credit.
  • Tie payments to eligible military operations, training, testing, construction, or authorized pollutant discharge, as the particular section requires.

Funding condition

  • Qualifying payments may be eligible military-construction project costs; §2694c expressly permits specified O&M, MILCON, RDT&E, and Guam-account funds subject to availability.

All recorded limits

  • These are distinct mitigation mechanisms with their own predicates, not a general power to speculate in environmental credits.
  • Wetland-bank payments replace mitigation through creation of a wetland on federal property under §2694b.
Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

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