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
Authority provided by Congress in FY 2003 National
Defense Authorization Act
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
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
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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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60 REPI locations in 24 states through FY2011
Six more to come in FY12!
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REPI Accomplishments through FY11
REPI Cost-Share
REPI multiplies taxpayer dollars:
For each REPI dollar, return was
ONE Service dollar and TWO
partner dollars
25%
REPI
52%
Combined
Service
23%
Partner
Transactions
Acres
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
486
215,115
$159,813,283
$146,063,432
$327,332,203
$633,208,917
Total
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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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Linking Lands…
WMA
DoD
NRCS
USFS
State
NGOs
Linking Lands…Linking Missions
2012 REPI Challenge
A 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:
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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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