How will BRAC 2005 be different from past rounds?
The process outlined in the BRAC Act of 1990, Public Law 101-510, as amended, remains primarily the same as used in the three previous rounds. This process has served the Department well during the previous rounds and is designed to be as fair as possible. However, there are some changes. Military value will continue to be an element of the published selection criteria. In previous rounds, as DoD policy, the military value criteria took priority over the other criteria. However, in BRAC 2005, there is now a statutory requirement that military value be the primary consideration. The BRAC 2005 process requires a separate report prior to the Secretary’s recommendations on closures and realignments. In this report, which is due to Congress along with the budget for fiscal year 2005 (about February 2004), the Secretary must include, among other things, the 20 year force structure plan of probable threats, a comprehensive inventory of installations, a discussion of categories of excess capac
