Much of the land used for Air Force training ranges is under the control of the BLM.

Dr. Robyn, are you concerned that the decreases in Services' budgets for MILCON projects to replace current facilities over the past 3 years is leading to a strain on O&M accounts that are used to maintain these deteriorated facilities?

The fiscal year 2012 President's budget request includes a certified DAR Program project at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Route 1.

Will every support facility on a military installation that may have an impact from a BRAC move supporting incoming personnel be eligible for improvements or replacement using BRAC funds?

The budget for environmental restoration in the fiscal year 2012 request is sufficient to achieve the goal of remedy in place or response complete at all active Installation Restoration Program sites by fiscal year 2014.

I fully support the Secretary of Defense's initiatives to spend each Defense dollar wisely and only on critical military priorities.

In conjunction with finding that new site, is the plan to actually construct a new Reserve Center in an alternative site?

the national debt is a threat to our national security.

But when you're given the legal language for--or the language in the bill itself, it seems like it is a way to circumvent what has been actually a decision of Congress, right now, on earmarks.

Non-Defense projects should be funded by other Federal, State, or local agencies.

In recent years, a proliferation of earmark grants have been appropriated to DOD through the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) for vague general requirements.

I also have the privilege of serving on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee that oversees transportation funding, and so I'm concerned that it's going to be a drain on your priorities.

I know that you're in the process of coming up with the criteria for strategic basing of where the KC-46A will be stationed.

I would just ask that this clearly become a merit-based decisionmaking that looks strategically at what makes sense and be the most cost-efficient use of taxpayer funds.

What are DOD and the Air Force doing to try to resolve the issue?

Dr Robyn, noting that DOD still uses a goal of 90 percent to budget operations and maintenance (O&M) funding to sustain our facilities, does DOD currently have any guidance issued to the Military Services that would establish benchmarks or…

Should the Department select this alternative in a supplemental Record of Decision, which is slated for mid-summer at the earliest, it would involve the acquisition of approximately 1,090 acres of non-DOD lands.

what is the plan to meet the training range requirements for the Marine Corps on Guam?