§ 2476 — Minimum Capital Investment For Certain Depots

(1) Each fiscal year, the Secretary of a military department shall invest in the capital budgets of the covered depots of that military department a total amount equal to not less than eight percent of the average total combined maintenance, repair, and overhaul workload funded at all the depots of that military department for the preceding three fiscal years. (2) Of the amount required to be invested in the capital budgets of the covered depots of a military department under paragraph (1) for each fiscal year— (A) 75 percent shall be used for the modernization or improvement of the efficiency of depot facilities, equipment, work environment, or processes in direct support of depot operations; and (B) 25 percent shall be used for the sustainment, restoration, and modernization (as such terms are defined in the Department of Defense Financial Management Regulation 7000.14–R, or successor regulation) of existing facilities or infrastructure. (b) For purposes of this section, the capital budget of a depot includes investment funds spent to modernize or improve the efficiency of depot facilities, equipment, work environment, or processes in direct support of depot operations. (c) In identifying amounts to invest pursuant to the requirement under subsection (a)(1), the Secretary of a military department shall comply with all applicable requirements of sections 129 and 129a of this title. (d) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement under subsection (a)(1) with respect to a military department for a fiscal year if the Secretary determines that the waiver is necessary for reasons of national security. Whenever the Secretary makes such a waiver, the Secretary shall notify the congressional defense committees of the waiver and the reasons for the waiver. (1) Not later than 45 days after the date on which the President submits to Congress the budget for a fiscal year under section 1105 of title 31, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing budget justification documents summarizing the level of capital investment for each military department as of the end of the preceding fiscal year. (2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include the following: (A) A specification of any statutory, regulatory, or operational impediments to achieving the requirement under subsection (a)(1) with respect to each military department. (B) A description of the benchmarks for capital investment established for each covered depot and military department and the relationship of the benchmarks to applicable performance measurement methods used in the private sector. (C) If the requirement under subsection (a)(1) is not met for a military department for the fiscal year covered by the report, a statement of the reasons why the requirement was not met and a plan of actions for meeting the requirement for the fiscal year beginning in the year in which such report is submitted. (D) Separate consideration and reporting of Navy depots and Marine Corps depots. (E) A table showing the funded workload performed by each covered depot for the preceding three fiscal years and actual investment funds allocated to each depot for the period covered by the report. (F) A table enumerating, for the period covered by the report, the amounts invested to meet the requirement under subsection (a)(1), disaggregated by funding source and whether the amount is allocated pursuant to subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (B) of subsection (a)(2). (f) In this section, the term “covered depot” means any of the following: (1) With respect to the Department of the Army: (A) Anniston Army Depot, Alabama. (B) Letterkenny Army Depot, Pennsylvania. (C) Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania. (D) Corpus Christi Army Depot, Texas. (E) Red River Army Depot, Texas. (F) Watervliet Arsenal, New York. (G) Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. (H) Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas. (I) Tooele Army Depot, Utah. (2) With respect to the Department of the Navy: (A) The following Navy depots: (i) Fleet Readiness Center East Site, Cherry Point, North Carolina. (ii) Fleet Readiness Center Southwest Site, North Island, California. (iii) Fleet Readiness Center Southeast Site, Jacksonville, Florida. (iv) Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine. (v) Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii. (vi) Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington. (vii) Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia. (B) The following Marine Corps depots: (i) Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Georgia. (ii) Marine Corps Logistics Base, Barstow, California. (3) With respect to the Department of the Air Force: (A) Warner-Robins Air Logistics Center, Georgia. (B) Ogden Air Logistics Center, Utah. (C) Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Oklahoma.