- ancillary supporting facilities
means facilities related to housing units, including facilities to provide or support elementary or secondary education, child care centers, day care centers, child development centers, tot lots, community centers, housing offices, dining facilities, unit offices, and other similar facilities for the support of military housing.
- appropriate committees of Congress
means the congressional defense committees and, with respect to any project to be carried out by, or for the use of, an intelligence component of the Department of Defense, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
- asset management fees
means fees paid to manage a housing unit for the purpose of ensuring the housing unit is maintained in good condition and making repairs over the lifecycle of the housing unit.
- base management fees
means the monthly management fees collected for services associated with accepting and processing rent payments, ensuring tenant rent payments, property inspections, maintenance management, and emergency maintenance calls.
- child development center
includes a facility, and the utilities to support such facility, the function of which is to support the daily care of children aged six weeks old through five years old for full-day, part-day, and hourly service.
- construction
means the construction of housing units and ancillary supporting facilities or the improvement or rehabilitation of existing units or ancillary supporting facilities.
- contract
includes any contract, lease, or other agreement entered into under the authority of this subchapter.
- covered armed force
means the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Space Force.
- covered dwelling unit
means a unit of accompanied family housing, unaccompanied housing, or barracks—
- covered health and safety standard
means the minimum health and safety criteria applicable to covered military unaccompanied housing established by the Secretary of Defense and may include standards relating to mold, ventilation, fire safety, or other related habitability conditions necessary to ensure safe occupancy.
- covered military construction project
means a military construction project for a facility that is used to perform critical functions during a natural or human-caused disaster, an attack, or any other unplanned event.
- covered military unaccompanied housing
means Government-owned military housing intended to be occupied by members of the armed forces serving a tour of duty unaccompanied by dependents.
- covered privacy and configuration standard
means the minimum standards for privacy and configuration applicable to covered military unaccompanied housing described in Department of Defense Manual 4165.63 titled “DoD Housing Management” and dated October 28, 2010 (or a successor document).
- defense access road
means a road certified to the Secretary of Transportation as important to the national defense under the provisions of section 210 of title 23.
- deferred fee
means any fee that was not paid to a person in a calendar year in order to meet other financial obligations of the landlord.
- disability
has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102).
- eligible entity
means any private person, corporation, firm, partnership, company, State or local government, or housing authority of a State or local government that is prepared to enter into a contract as a partner with the Secretary concerned for the construction of housing units and ancillary supporting facilities.
- energy and climate resiliency
means anticipation, preparation for, and adaptation to utility disruptions and changing environmental conditions and the ability to withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from utility disruptions while ensuring the sustainment of mission-critical operations.
- facility
includes at a minimum any of the following:
- Fund
means the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund or the Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund established under section 2883(a) of this title.
- housing document
means a document developed by the Secretary of Defense under section 2890 of this title and known as the Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Bill of Rights or the Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Responsibilities.
- housing unit
means a unit of family housing or military unaccompanied housing acquired or constructed under this subchapter.
- HRMA
means, with respect to a military installation, a structured analytical process under which an assessment is made of both the suitability and availability of the private sector rental housing market using assumed specific standards related to affordability, location, features, physical condition, and the housing requirements of the total population of such installation, including members of the armed forces, civilian employees of the Department of Defense, and defense contractors.
- improvement
includes rehabilitation of a housing unit and major maintenance or repair work to be accomplished concurrently with an improvement project.
- incentive fees
means any amounts payable to a landlord for meeting or exceeding performance metrics as specified in a contract with the Department of Defense.
- Indian tribe
has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).
- innovation infrastructure
includes laboratories, test and evaluation ranges, and any other infrastructure whose primary purpose is research, development, test, and evaluation.
- laboratory
includes—
- landlord
means an eligible entity that enters into, or has entered into, a contract as a partner with the Secretary concerned for the acquisition or construction of a housing unit under this subchapter.
- maintenance
includes any renovations of the housing unit during the period specified in subsection (a)(1).
- major military installation
has the meaning given to the term “large site” in the most recent version of the Department of Defense Base Structure Report issued before the time interval prescribed for development of installation master plans arises under subsection (a).
- military installation
includes a facility of a reserve component owned by a State rather than the United States.
- military installation resilience
has the meaning given that term in section 101(e) 1 of this title.
- military unaccompanied housing
means military housing intended to be occupied by members of the armed forces serving a tour of duty unaccompanied by dependents and transient housing intended to be occupied by members of the armed forces on temporary duty.
- one-step turn-key selection procedures
means procedures used for the selection of a contractor on the basis of price and other evaluation criteria to perform, in accordance with the provisions of a firm fixed-price contract, both the design and construction of a facility using performance specifications supplied by the Secretary concerned.
- preferred return fees
means fees associated with any claims on profits furnished to preferred investors with an interest in the housing unit.
- property support service
means the following:
- repair project
means a project—
- residual cashflow distribution
means the steps a specific housing project takes to restructure after it is determined that the project is in an unacceptable financial condition.
- sacred site
has the meaning given that term in Executive Order No. 13007, as in effect on the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
- scope of work
refers to the function, size, or quantity of a facility or item of complete and useable infrastructure contained in the justification data provided to Congress as part of the request for authorization of the project, construction, improvement, or acquisition.
- Secretary concerned
means—
- security assistance activity
means—
- specified congressional committees
means—
- tenant
means any of the following:
- tribal government
means the recognized governing body of an Indian tribe.
- United States
includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- water resilience
means the capacity of a military installation to mitigate, respond, or adapt to changes in water availability due to manmade or natural phenomena.