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[CITE: 10USC2801]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
     CHAPTER 169--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
 
Sec. 2801. Scope of chapter; definitions

    (a) The term ``military construction'' as used in this chapter or 
any other provision of law includes any construction, development, 
conversion, or extension of any kind carried out with respect to a 
military installation.
    (b) A military construction project includes all military 
construction work, or any contribution authorized by this chapter, 
necessary to produce a complete and usable facility or a complete and 
usable improvement to an existing facility (or to produce such portion 
of a complete and usable facility or improvement as is specifically 
authorized by law).
    (c) In this chapter:
        (1) The term ``facility'' means a building, structure, or other 
    improvement to real property.
        (2) The term ``military installation'' means a base, camp, post, 
    station, yard, center, or other activity under the jurisdiction of 
    the Secretary of a military department or, in the case of an 
    activity in a foreign country, under the operational control of the 
    Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Defense.
        (3) The term ``Secretary concerned'' includes the Secretary of 
    Defense with respect to matters concerning the Defense Agencies.
        (4) The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means the 
    Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of 
    the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
    Appropriations of the House of Representatives 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.

    (d) This chapter (other than sections 2830 and 2835) does not apply 
to the Coast Guard or to civil works projects of the Army Corps of 
Engineers.

(Added Pub. L. 97-214, Sec. 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 153; amended 
Pub. L. 100-26, Sec. 7(k)(2), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 284; Pub. L. 100-
180, div. A, title VI, Sec. 632(b)(1), title XII, Sec. 1231(15), div. B, 
subdiv. 3, title I, Sec. 2306(b), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1105, 1160, 
1216; Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title X, Sec. 1052(37), Oct. 23, 1992, 
106 Stat. 2501; Pub. L. 102-496, title IV, Sec. 403(b), Oct. 24, 1992, 
106 Stat. 3185; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, Sec. 1502(a)(10), 
Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 503; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (c)(4). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``and the Committee 
on Armed Services'' for ``and the Committee on National Security''.
    1996--Subsec. (c)(4). Pub. L. 104-106 substituted ``the Committee on 
Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
Committee on National Security and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the'' for ``the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of 
the Senate and''.
    1992--Subsec. (c)(4). Pub. L. 102-496 inserted before period at end 
``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''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102-484 substituted ``sections 2830 and 2835'' 
for ``sections 2828(g) and 2830''.
    1987--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100-26 inserted ``The term'' after each 
par. designation and struck out uppercase letter of first word after 
first quotation marks in pars. (1), (2), and (4) and substituted 
lowercase letter.
    Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 100-180, Sec. 1231(15), substituted 
``Defense Agencies'' for ``defense agencies''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100-180, Sec. 2306(b), substituted ``(other 
than sections 2828(g) and 2830)'' for ``(other than section 2830)''.
    Pub. L. 100-180, Sec. 632(b)(1), inserted ``(other than section 
2830)'' after ``This chapter''.


                             Effective Date

    Section 12 of Pub. L. 97-214 provided:
    ``(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the amendments made by 
this Act [see Short Title of 1982 Amendment note below] shall take 
effect on October 1, 1982, and shall apply to military construction 
projects, and to construction and acquisition of military family 
housing, authorized before, on, or after such date.
    ``(b) The amendment made by section 4 [amending section 138(f)(1) 
[now 114(b)] of this title] shall apply with respect to funds 
appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1983.''


                      Short Title of 1982 Amendment

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 97-214 provided that: ``This Act [see Tables 
for classification] may be cited as the `Military Construction 
Codification Act'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2208 of this title.
