{
  "id": "IND-52",
  "category": "Environmental restoration",
  "capability": "Fund cleanup and contract/cooperate for defense environmental remediation",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2701",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2701&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2703",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2703&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "42 U.S.C. § 9620",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9620&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §324",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; designated OSD program office",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff",
      "Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "USACE district real-estate/construction offices",
      "NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands",
      "AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Landowners / developers / local governments",
      "Environmental regulators and real-estate counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Energy, Installations, and Environment: mission and responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AFCEC organizational responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/About-Us/Organizational-Structure/"
    },
    {
      "title": "USACE district real-estate execution: acquisition, management, disposal",
      "url": "https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/About/Divisions-Offices/Real-Estate/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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": [
    "Cannot reimburse regulatory enforcement through §2701(d)",
    "Agreement cannot change legal cleanup standards",
    "Not universal environmental waiver"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Environmental restoration/BRAC and other legally available accounts; §2703 restrictions apply."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "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.",
  "family": "Energy, environment and communities",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases",
    "Cooperation & exchanges"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": []
}