16 U.S.C. § 670a — Cooperative plan for conservation and rehabilitation

(a) Authority and program. (1) The Defense Secretary must conserve and rehabilitate natural resources on military installations. Each military-department Secretary must prepare and implement an integrated natural resources management plan for each United States^* installation under that Secretary’s jurisdiction unless significant natural resources are absent. A plan may also be made for a State-owned National Guard installation^*, with available appropriations and coordination with the State^* chief executive; it is treated under other laws as covering Defense-owned, controlled, or designated land. (2) Each plan must be prepared with the Interior Secretary, through the Fish and Wildlife Service Director, and the appropriate State fish and wildlife agency^*, and must reflect their mutual agreement on fish and wildlife conservation, protection, and management. (3) Consistent with military preparedness, the program must conserve and rehabilitate resources, use natural or nature-based features for installation resilience, allow sustainable multipurpose use including hunting, fishing, trapping, and nonconsumptive uses, and allow public access subject to safety and security. State-owned National Guard programs must coordinate with the State chief executive. (4) This subchapter does not change Federal fish and wildlife law or State responsibility and authority over fish and resident wildlife, and does not authorize a military-department Secretary to require a Federal hunting, fishing, or trapping license or permit except as this section and § 670b specifically provide. (b) Plans. As appropriate, plans must cover fish and wildlife, land and forests, recreation, habitat, wetlands, consistency among activities, goals and deadlines, sustainable public use, safe and secure public access, natural-resource-law enforcement, no net loss of mission capability, and other appropriate activities. Parties must review operation and effect at least every five years. A military plan may provide special State hunting and fishing permits and nominal fees for resource protection; installation commanders may enforce, collect, spend, administer, and account for them as State agents if the plan says so, and fees may be spent only at the installation unless it later closes. (c) Land sales and leases. After agreement on a plan, land or forest products may not be sold under 10 U.S.C. § 2665, and land may not be leased under § 2667, unless compatible with the plan. (d) Implementation. OMB Circular A–76 does not apply to needed implementation or enforcement services. Priority goes to contracts with Federal or State fish-and-wildlife agencies. (e) Other law. Plans under this section and § 670b are not cooperative agreements under 31 U.S.C. chapter 63. (f) Reports. By March 1 each year, the Defense Secretary must report to the specified House and Senate committees the number and dates of plans, conservation spending, and compliance. The Interior Secretary, consulting State agencies, must report spending by Interior and State agencies. “Committees” means the listed House Resources and Armed Services Committees and Senate Armed Services and Environment and Public Works Committees. (g) Invasive species. As practicable and consistent with readiness, the Defense Secretary must include management, control, and eradication of nonnative species whose introduction harms or may harm readiness, the environment, or human health and safety, after consulting the Interior Secretary.