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 114 STAT. 1654A-82 PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX (b) ELEMENTS OF REPORT. — At a minimum, the report shall include or address the following: (1) The extent of the work necessary to repair and revitalize facilities and infrastructure, or to demolish and replace unusable facilities, carried as backlog by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department. (2) Measurable goals, over specified time frames, for addressing all of the identified requirements. (3) Expected funding for each military department and Defense Agency to address the identified requirements during the period covered by the most recent future-years defense program submitted to Congress pursuant to section 221 of title 10, United States Code. (4) The cost of the current backlog in maintenance and repair for each military department and Defense Agency, which shall be determined using the standard costs to standard facility categories in the Department of Defense Facilities Cost Factors Handbook, shown both in the aggregate and individually for each major military installation. (5) The total number of square feet of building space of each military department and Defense Agency to be demolished or proposed for demolition, shown both in the aggregate and individually for each major military installation. (6) The initiatives underway to identify facility and infrastructure requirements at military installations to accommodate new and developing weapons systems and to prepare installations to accommodate these systems. (c) ANNUAL UPDATES. — The Secretary of Defense shall update the report required under subsection (a) annually. The annual updates shall be submitted to Congress at or about the time that the budget is submitted to Congress for a fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. SEC. 375. NEW METHODOLOGY FOR PREPARING BUDGET REQUESTS TO SATISFY ARMY READINESS REQUIREMENTS. (a) REQUIREMENT FOR NEW METHODOLOGY.— The Secretary of the Army shall develop a new methodology for preparing budget requests for operation and maintenance for the Army that can be used to ensure that the budget requests for operation and maintenance for future fiscal years more accurately reflect the Army's requirements than did the budget requests submitted to Congress for fiscal year 2001 and preceding fiscal years. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING NEW METHODOLOGY.—It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the methodology required by subsection (a) should provide for the determination of the budget levels to request for operation and maintenance for the Army to be based on— (A) the level of training that must be conducted in order for the Army to execute successfully the full range of missions called for in the national defense strategy delineated pursuant to section 118 of title 10, United States Code, at a low-to-moderate level of risk; (B) the cost of conducting training at the level of training described in subparagraph (A); and (C) the costs of all other Army operations, including the cost of meeting infrastructure requirements; and

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