FEASIBILITY STUDY OF LAND TRANSFER FOR USE AS A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

SEC. 2847. FEASIBILITY STUDY OF LAND TRANSFER FOR USE AS A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (a) In General.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Attorney General of the United States, conduct a study of the feasibility of selling or otherwise transferring to the Commonwealth of Virginia, subdivisions thereof, or any combination of subdivisions thereof, a parcel of land of approximately one hundred acres not more than one hundred miles from the southern boundary of Arlington County, from the military installations within Virginia which encompass land that may be suitable for use by the Commonwealth of Virginia, subdivisions thereof, or any combination of subdivisions thereof, as a site for a medium security correctional facility for persons sentenced in the courts of Virginia or in a United States District Court in Virginia. 103 STAT. 1666 (2) The study required by paragraph (1) shall address, at a minimum, the following issues: (A) Whether there are parcels of land within those installations of the size described which could be released from Federal control without severely affecting the present mission of such installations. (B) A description of the parcels of land referred to in subparagraph (A). (C) A description of the effects, if any, transfer of such parcels of land from Federal control would have on the ability of the Secretary of Defense to carry out effectively the missions of the Department of Defense. (D) An analysis of the risk, if any, that might be posed to military personnel and their dependents housed on such installation by the operation of such a correctional facility on the parcels of land referred to in subparagraph (A). (E) An estimate of the date on which the parcels of land referred to in subparagraph (A) would be available for transfer from Federal control. (b) Report.—The report of the study described in subsection (a) shall be transmitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and of the House of Representatives not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of the Congress that no land is to be conveyed or otherwise transferred for use as a correctional facility as a result, directly or indirectly, of the study carried out under this section unless— (1) the unit or units of general local government having jurisdiction over the land will utilize the correctional facility to be located on the land; or (2) such unit or units have approved formally the use of such land for a correctional facility.