OF DEFENSE RECOMMENDATION ON NEED FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REVIEW OF PROPOSED FEDERAL AGENCY ACTIONS TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE IMPACT ON NATIONAL DEFENSE.

SEC. 1041. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RECOMMENDATION ON NEED FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REVIEW OF PROPOSED FEDERAL AGENCY ACTIONS TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE IMPACT ON NATIONAL DEFENSE. (a) Recommendation on Need for Defense Impact Review Process.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the President the Secretary’s recommendation as to whether there should be established within the executive branch a defense impact review process. The Secretary shall submit a copy of such recommendation to Congress. (b) Defense Impact Review Process.—(1) For purposes of this section, the term “defense impact review process” means a formal process within the executive branch— (A) to provide for review by the Department of Defense of certain proposed actions of other Federal departments and agencies to identify any reasonably foreseeable significant adverse impact of such a proposed action on national defense; and (B) when such a review indicates that a proposed agency action may have such an adverse impact— (i) to afford the Secretary of Defense a timely opportunity to make recommendations for means to eliminate or mitigate any such adverse impact; and 115 STAT. 1218 (ii) to afford an opportunity for those recommendations to be given reasonable and timely consideration by the agency to which provided. (2) For purposes of such a review process, the proposed agency actions subject to review would be those for which a significant adverse impact on national defense is reasonably foreseeable and that meet such additional criteria as may be specified by the Secretary of Defense. (c) Time for Submission of Recommendation.—The Secretary shall submit the Secretary’s recommendation under subsection (a) not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.