---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2285"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2285"
heading: "Department of Defense Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2285"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 136 — Provisions Relating to Specific Programs"
---

# §2285. Department of Defense Climate Resilience Infrastructure Initiative

- (a) **Designation.—** The programs, practices, and activities carried out pursuant to this section shall be known collectively as the “[Climate Resilience](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-19) Infrastructure Initiative of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense”.
- (b) **Hardening and Quick Recovery.—** In carrying out [military installation resilience](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-8) plans pursuant to [section 2864 of this title](/usc/10/2864.md), the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the development by the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense of requirements for backup utilities, communications, and transportation to ensure that the critical infrastructure of [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) [facilities](/usc/10/227.md?p=b-2) is hardened, developed, and constructed for quick recovery from natural disasters and the impacts of [extreme weather](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-20).
- (c) **Sustainment and Modernization.—** The Secretary shall develop sustainment and modernization requirements for [facilities](/usc/10/227.md?p=b-2) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) in connection with [climate resilience](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-19).
- (d) **Collaboration in Planning With Local Communities.—** The Secretary shall develop, within existing frameworks for collaborative activities between [military installations](/usc/10/183a.md?p=h-7) and [State](/usc/10/2815a.md?p=g-2) and local communities, and in addition to the requirements of [section 2864(c) of this title](/usc/10/2864.md?p=c), a framework that authorizes and directs [installation](/usc/10/2920.md?p=h-5) commanders to engage with [State](/usc/10/2815a.md?p=g-2), regional, and local [agencies](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1), and with local communities, on planning for [climate resilience](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-19), to enhance efficient response to impacts of [extreme weather](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-20) and secure collaborative investment in infrastructure that is resilient to the current and projected impacts of [extreme weather](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-20).
- (e) **Testing and Training Range Lands.—**
  - (1) **Practices for sustainment of lands.—** The Secretary shall develop and implement practices to sustain the lands of the military testing and training [ranges](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-1) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), and the lands of testing and training [ranges](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-1) on [State](/usc/10/2815a.md?p=g-2)-owned [National Guard](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-1) [installations](/usc/10/2920.md?p=h-5), through the adaptation and resilience of such lands to the current and projected impacts of [extreme weather](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-20) to ensure the ongoing availability of such lands to military personnel, weapon systems, and equipment for testing and training purposes.
  - (2) **Training and education on sustainment of lands.—** The Secretary shall develop a program of training and education for [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the [Armed Forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) (including the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) components) on the importance of the sustainment of the lands of the military testing and training [ranges](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-1) as described in [paragraph (1)](#e-1).
  - (3) **Investment in resilience of lands.—** The Secretary shall use existing programs of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), including the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) (or such successor program), to provide for investments determined appropriate by the Secretary in the lands of the military testing and training [ranges](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-1), to increase the resilience and adaptation of such lands to the current and projected impacts of [extreme weather](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-20) for testing and training purposes in connection with current and projected testing and training requirements in the short- and long-term.
- (f) **Use of Certain Technologies.—** The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to increase the use of low emission, emission-free, and net-zero-emission energy technologies in the operations, programs, projects, and activities of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), provided the use is cost effective over the life-cycle of the investment.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title III, § 332(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1637; amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title XVII, § 1701(a)(28), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2204.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2024—Subsecs. (b) to (f). Pub. L. 118–159 redesignated subsecs. (d) to (f) as (c) to (e), respectively, and the second subsec. (b), relating to use of certain technologies, as (f).