Military Construction Appropriations For 1997 Justification Of The Budget Estimates Base Realignment And Closure

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Download or read book Military Bases: Potential Reductions to the Fiscal Year 1997 Base Closure Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual review covers the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) accounts and makes recommendations on the validity of the Department of Defense's (DOD) proposed budget request for base closure activities. This report focuses on the accuracy of DOD'S BRAC budget estimates and on opportunities to reduce the fiscal year 1997 BRAC budget. Changing national security needs and DOD'S recognition that its base structure was larger than required led to a decision to close numerous bases around the country. Consequently, the Congress enacted legislation that instituted base closure rounds in 1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995. The BRAC legislation also established closure accounts to finance the closures of bases identified in the base closure process. DOD annually sends the Congress detailed budget submissions to justify its BRAC funding requests. The budget submissions contain six subaccounts: military construction, family housing, environmental, operations and maintenance (O & M), military permanent change in station, and other. The budget is used by the Congress to make separate appropriations for each BRAC round. BRAC appropriations need not be obligated in the year of appropriation and, except for the environmental subaccount prior to fiscal year 1996, they need not be used in the subaccount for which they were requested. DOD is requesting $2.5 billion for the BRAC accounts in fiscal year 1997.