{
  "id": "IND-46",
  "category": "Long-term energy purchase",
  "capability": "Anchor on-base or private energy production through long-term contracts",
  "summary": "Procure output and operation of energy-production facilities on controlled or private land; support energy/fuel agreements under incorporated geothermal authority.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2922a&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2917",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2917&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Service Secretary with Secretary of Defense approval",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Installation energy manager",
      "Service energy office / ASD(EI&E)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Installation utility/O&M accounts or authorized project funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense approval when statute requires"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DLA Energy Installation Energy or Utility Services as appropriate",
      "Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Utility / energy-service company",
      "DOE technical assistance; State utility regulator where required"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DLA Energy organizational business units",
      "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Energy/About/Organization.aspx"
    },
    {
      "title": "Energy, Installations, and Environment: mission and responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AFCEC organizational responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/About-Us/Organizational-Structure/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Secretary of Defense approval of proposed contract",
    "Include energy security/resilience as critical factors",
    "Appropriate site and utility agreements"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Maximum30year contract",
    "Not unrestricted construction or lending authority",
    "Environmental and technology-specific licensing still apply"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Annual appropriations may pay annual contract costs; project liability and termination provisions require review."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "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.",
  "family": "Energy, environment and communities",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense approval when statute requires"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC"
    }
  ]
}