EconDefense
IND-52 / Energy, environment and communities

Fund cleanup and contract/cooperate for defense environmental remediation

Carry out Defense Environmental Restoration Program, including offsite contamination and eligible former/Guard sites; obtain services from agencies, tribes, owners of covenant property and conservation nonprofits.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-52 · Contracts & purchases

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; designated OSD program office

Contracts & purchasesCooperation & exchanges

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Defense-related site/response responsibility
  • Consult EPA; CERCLA federal-facility requirements
  • Reimbursement agreement generally no more than2years except BRAC
  • FY26 PFAS destruction/disposal technologies must be cost-effective and regulator-permitted/approved

Limits & exclusions

  • Cannot reimburse regulatory enforcement through §2701(d)
  • Agreement cannot change legal cleanup standards
  • Not universal environmental waiver

Funding conditions

  • Environmental restoration/BRAC and other legally available accounts; §2703 restrictions apply.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff
  • Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy

Resources

  • Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor

Approval

  • Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official

Execution

  • USACE district real-estate/construction offices
  • NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands
  • AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates

Partners & review

  • Landowners / developers / local governments
  • Environmental regulators and real-estate counsel

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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