10 U.S.C. § 2819 — Strategy and assessment with respect to non-operational, underutilized, and other Department of Defense facilities: assessments of historical significance

(a) Demolition strategy. Each Secretary concerned^* must develop a strategy to demolish facilities under that Secretary’s jurisdiction that (1) are in poor or failing condition under the uniform index in section 2838 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118–31), (2) are not operationally used, or (3) the Secretary finds underused.
(b) Maintenance-cost assessment. Each Secretary must assess the total United States cost of maintaining facilities that are not operationally used and that the Secretary finds underused.
(c) Required comparison. To decide whether a facility^* is underused under (a) or (b), the Secretary must compare its occupancy with its total square footage.
(d) Historical significance. (1) By December 1, 2025, and every year after that, each Secretary must assess every facility under the Secretary’s jurisdiction built at least 25 years before the assessment year. The assessment must decide whether it is historically significant or will become so at the end of the 25-year period beginning when the assessment is completed. (2) For a facility found not to be, and not to become, historically significant, the Secretary must assess its condition, initially decide whether it will be modernized or demolished during that 25-year period, and submit the condition results and decision to the department’s digital facilities-management system. (3) If the Secretary later changes the historical-significance or modernization/demolition decision during an assessment, the submitted information must be revised.
(e) Annual briefing. (1) With the President’s fiscal-year 2027 budget and each year after, each Secretary must brief the committees on the demolition strategy and the assessments under (b) and (d). (2) The briefing must summarize demolition authorities, give an implementation plan, and recommend ways to reduce both facilities in poor or failing condition under the cited uniform index and the United States’ total cost of maintaining the facilities assessed under (b).