REPI Overview

11 September 2012

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What is the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative?

• REPI supports partnerships authorized by 10 U.S.C. § 2684a among the Military Services, private conservation groups, and state and local governments

• OSD Manages REPI as an internal-DoD program, issuing guidance and providing funding to the Services for projects

• Services implement REPI projects, including projects not receiving REPI funding that only use Service O&M funding

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REPI Authority: 10 U.S.C. § 2684a

Authorizes agreements to acquire:

1. Real property interests or water rights

2. For property in the vicinity of, or ecologically related to,

3. A military installation, range or airspace

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Authority provided by Congress in FY 2003 National Defense Authorization Act

Two-pronged justification:

1. Limit development or use of the property that is incompatible with the installation’s mission

and / or

2. Preserve habitat to relieve current or anticipated environmental restrictions on military activities

10 USC 2684a Legal Requirements Limit encroachment or other constraints on military

training, testing or operations

Protect against incompatible land uses OR preserve habitat

Eligible entity

Interest in real property

Willing seller

Cost share

Demand clause

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560 REPI locations in 24 states through FY2011

Six more to come in FY12!

REPI Accomplishments through FY11

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TransactionsAcres

Protected REPI Service Partner Combined Total

Army 333 166,901 $95,432,237 $121,576,316 $228,666,796 $445,675,349

Navy 89 10,554 $26,252,083 $4,994,500 $34,901,874 $66,148,457

Marine Corps 36 33,863 $31,609,559 $19,170,776 $55,728,369 $106,508,704

Air Force 28 3,797 $6,519,404 $321,840 $8,035,163 $14,876,407

Total 486 215,115 $159,813,283 $146,063,432 $327,332,203 $633,208,917

REPI multiplies taxpayer dollars: For each REPI dollar, return was ONE Service dollar and TWO partner dollars

Future REPI Successes

• Increasing new partnerships with other Federal agencies and across regional boundaries

• Continue to double tax dollars with partner dollars

• Encourage innovation, lessons learned and transferring across Services and projects

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NRCS

USFS

State

NGOs

DoDWMA

Linking Lands…

Linking Lands…Linking Missions

2012 REPI ChallengeA new model to accelerate and expand buffering outcomes

• Hypotheses: – Larger scale will produce greater mission benefit at lower per unit cost– DoD and national security land protection requirements can be the “match

magnet” in priority conservation landscapes • Objectives:

– Harness the creativity of the private sector– Attract additional financial support from diverse sources– Use the marketplace to secure the most land at the least cost

• Parameters:– FY12 pilot project– Up to $5M at one location in Georgia or Florida– At least 1:1 cost match– Use existing partnership agreements but include new partners,

landowners and financing

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2013 REPI Challenge: Goals and Expectations

Doing more with less

Nonlinear return on investment

Innovative partnerships and financing

Harness the creativity of the private sector

Market-based approaches to secure the most land at the least cost

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