Editing Base Realignment and Closure (section)

==Law==
The Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990 provided "the basic framework for the transfer and disposal of military installations closed during the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process".<ref name=Flynn>{{cite web |last=Flynn |first=Aaron M. |date=February 23, 2005 |title=Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC): Property Transfer and Disposal |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/CRSR/browse/?q=brac&t=metadata |format=abstract at [[University of Texas]] Digital Library |work=Congressional Research Service Reports |access-date=2011-10-12}}</ref> The process was created in 1988 to reduce [[pork barrel]] politics with members of Congress that arise when facilities face activity reductions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/toc.php?mode=cqalmanac-topic&level=3&values=Defense%2C+National+Security%2C+Homeland+Security%7E1989|url-access=subscription |title=Base-Closing Plan Survives Assaults by Some on Hill |series=CQ Almanac 1989, 45th ed. |website=[[CQ Press]] |publisher=[[Congressional Quarterly]] |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=470–73}}</ref>

The most recent process began May 13, 2005, when Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld]] forwarded his recommendations for realignments and closures to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission. The BRAC is an independent nine-member panel appointed by the President. This panel evaluated the list by taking testimony from interested parties and visiting affected bases. The BRAC Commission had the opportunity to add bases to the list and did so in a July 19, 2005, hearing. The Commission met its deadline of September 2005 to provide the evaluated list to the President, who approved the list with the condition that it could only be approved or disapproved in its entirety. On November 7, 2005, the approved list was then given to Congress, who had the opportunity to disapprove the entire list within 45 days by enacting a resolution of disapproval. This did not happen, and the BRAC Commission's recommendations became final.