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PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006

requirements for transportation, utility infrastructure, housing, education, and family support activities, are considered. SEC. 2836. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFER OF UNITS AND PERSONNEL FROM CLOSED AND REALIGNED MILITARY INSTALLATIONS TO RECEIVING LOCATIONS.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: (1) The decisions of the 2005 round of base closures and realignments and the Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy will result in the permanent change of station and relocation of hundreds of thousands of members of the Armed Forces and their families over the next six years. (2) Critical quality-of-life concerns for military families related to the infrastructure and installation requirements to support the restructuring of the Armed Forces include adequate housing and continued access to quality education facilities and child care, health care, and other services. (3) By ensuring that facilities and infrastructure are maintained at closing installations pending the actual change of station and relocation of members of the Armed Forces and their families and that adequate permanent facilities and infrastructure await them at the receiving installations, disruptions to unit operational effectiveness will be minimized and the quality of life of military families will be protected. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should seek to ensure that the permanent facilities and infrastructure necessary to support the mission of the Armed Forces and the quality-of-life needs of members of the Armed Forces and their families are ready for use at receiving locations before units are transferred to such locations as a result of the 2005 round of base closures and realignments and the Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy. SEC.

2837.

DEFENSE ACCESS ROAD PROGRAM AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AFFECTED BY DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE PROCESS OR INTEGRATED GLOBAL PRESENCE AND BASING STRATEGY.

(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that roads leading onto a military installation that is significantly impacted by an increase in the number of members of the Armed Forces assigned to the installation as a result of the 2005 round of defense base closure and realignment under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) or the Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy should be considered for designation as defense access roads for purposes of section 210 of title 23, United States Code. (b) STUDY OF SURFACE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE OF AFFECTED INSTALLATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study— (1) to identify each military installation, if any, that will be significantly impacted by an increase in the number of members of the Armed Forces assigned to the installation as a result of the 2005 round of defense base closure and realignment under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 or the Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy; and

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