{
  "id": "USC-32",
  "category": "Environmental mitigation markets",
  "capability": "Buy wetland, conservation, and water-quality mitigation credits",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2694b",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2694c",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2694d",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters; any delegation must be verified"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §2694b: statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §2694c: statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §2694d: statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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."
  ],
  "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."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "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."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "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.",
  "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.",
  "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.",
  "currentness": "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.",
  "family": "Energy, environment and communities",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "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."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters; any delegation must be verified"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters; any delegation must be verified"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "energy-environment-and-communities",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-32",
    "name": "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified",
    "label": "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-32/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "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. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-32/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-32/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "These are distinct mitigation mechanisms with their own predicates, not a general power to speculate in environmental credits."
}