SEC. 405. The Secretary of Defense or his designee is authorized to maintain and operate any housing acquired under this title and assign quarters therein to military and civilian personnel and their dependents. Appropriations for quarters allowances or appropriate allotments, and rental charges to civilian personnel, may be utilized by the military department concerned for the payment of principal, interest, and other obligations, except those of maintenance and operation, of the mortgagor corporation with respect to such housing projects. Such payments shall not exceed an average of $90 a month per housing unit and total payments for all housing so acquired shall not exceed $21,000,000 per month: Provided, that, in case of the United States Coast Guard, total payments for all housing so acquired shall not exceed $90,000 per month.

SEC. 406. Whenever the Secretary of Defense or his designee determines that it is desirable in order to effectuate the purposes of this title, the Secretary of Defense is authorized, without regard to the civil service and classification laws, to procure, by negotiation or otherwise, the services of architects and engineers, or organizations thereof, under such arrangements as he deems desirable, but at an expense not in excess of that permissible under the schedule of fees allowed from time to time by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in connection with projects assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended. Such services may include the development of plans, drawings, and specifications for family housing under this title and other services in connection therewith: Provided, That such plans, drawings, and specifications may include the use on any project to be constructed under this title of alternate materials or alternate types of construction, including prefabrication, that provide substantially equal value and conform to standards established by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That such plans, drawings, and specifications, when developed pursuant to arrangements made under this section after the date of the enactment of the Housing Act of 1956 shall follow the principle of modular measure, in order that the housing may be built by conventional construction, on-site fabrication, factory precutting, factory fabrication, or any combination of these construction methods: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense may designate certain sites or parts thereof for family housing to be furnished from prefabricated houses or housing components. Such arrangements may include provision for advance or progress payments, for payment by third parties, for payment by the Government of any such compensation as is not paid for by third parties, and shall include provision for reimbursement by third parties to the Government of any compensation or other expenses paid by the Government pursuant to this section, and may include other provisions for compensation. Any public works appropriations now or hereafter available to the Departments of the Army, Navy, or Air Force or the Coast Guard may be obligated by the respective departments or the Coast Guard for these purposes. Reimbursements to the

1 Sec. 508 of the Housing Act of 1956, Public Law 1020, 84th Congress, approved August 7, 1956, 70 Stat. 1091, 1110, substituted "$21.000.000" for "$9.000.000."

This proviso added by sec. 509 of the Housing Act of 1956, Public Law 1020, 84th Congress, approved August 7, 1956, 70 Stat. 1091, 1110.

2 August 7, 1956.

Government on account of payments made pursuant to this section shall be made to appropriations against which such payments were charged. The Secretary of Defense is further authorized to advance or pay to the Department of Housing and Urban Development its "Appraisal and Eligibility Statement" fees in connection with such family housing. The Secretary of Defense is further authorized to enter into arrangements by contract or otherwise for eventual acquisition, by the Government, without cost to the Government of all right, title, and interest in sites on which housing is constructed pursuant to this title and improvements thereon.

SEC. 407. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 403 through 406 of this Act.

(b) Any funds heretofore or hereafter authorized to be expended by any of the military departments or the Coast Guard for the payment of allowances for quarters for military personnel may be used for the purposes specified in subsection (a) above.

SEC. 408. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 401 of this Act, the provisions of title VIII of the National Housing Act in effect prior to the enactment of the Housing Amendments of 1955 shall continue in full force and effect with respect to all mortgages insured pursuant to a certification by the Secretary of Defense or his designee made on or before June 30, 1955, and a commitment to insure issued on or before June 30, 1956 or pursuant to a certification by the Atomic Energy Commission or its designee made on or before June 30, 1956, except that the maximum dollar amount for each such mortgage shall be $12,500,000. Nothing contained in the provisions of title VIII of the National Housing Act in effect prior to August 11, 1955, or any related provision of law, shall be construed to exempt from State or local taxes or assessments the interest of a lessee from the Federal Government in or with respect to any property covered by a mortgage insured under such provisions of title VIII: Provided, That, no such taxes or assessments (not paid or encumbering such property or interest prior to June 15, 1956) on the interest of such lessee shall exceed the amount of taxes or assessments on other similar property of similar value, less such amount as the Secretary of Defense or his designee determines to be equal to (1) any payments made by the Federal Government to the local taxing or other public agencies involved with respect to such property, plus (2) such amount as may be appropriate for any expenditures made by the Federal Government or the lessee for the provision or maintenance of streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, lighting, snow removal or any other services or facilities which are customarily provided by the State, county, city, or other local taxing authority with respect to such other similar property: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to properties leased pursuant to the provisions of section 805 of the National Housing Act as amended on or after August 11, 1955, which properties shall be exempt from State or local taxes or assessments. SEC. 409. (a) Wherever the terms "Secretary of Defense" or "Secretary of the Army, Navy, or Air Force" appear in this title or in title.

1 Provisions concerning taxes added by sec. 511 of the Housing Act of 1956, Public Law 1020, 84th Congress, approved August 7, 1956, 70 Stat. 1091, 1110.

VIII of the National Housing Act, as amended by the Housing Amendments of 1955, they shall be deemed to mean the Secretary of Transportation in the case of the application of the provisions of this title or of title VIII of the National Housing Act, as amended by the Housing Amendments of 1955, for the benefit of the United States Coast Guard.

(b) Wherever the term "armed services" appears in this title it shall be deemed to include the United States Coast Guard.

SEC. 410.1 In the construction of housing under the authority of this title and title VIII of the National Housing Act, as amended, the maximum limitations on net floor area for each unit shall be the same as the net floor area limitations prescribed by law (at the time plans and specifications for such construction are begun) for public quarters built with appropriated funds under military construction authority.

Approved August 11, 1955.

1 Sec. 410 amended to read as set forth in the text by sec. 503 of the Housing Act of 1957, Public Law 85-104, approved July 12, 1957, 71 Stat. 294, 303. Sec. 410 was orginally added by sec. 510 of the Housing Act of 1956, Public Law 1020, 84th Congress, approved August 7, 1956, 70 Stat. 1091, 1110. Prior to amendment by the Housing Act of 1957, sec. 410 read as follows: "In the construction of housing under the authority of this title and title VIII of the National Housing Act, as amended, the maximum limitations on net floor area for each unit shall be the same as the net floor area permanent limitations prescribed in the second, third, and fourth provisos of section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 (62 Stat. 375), or in section 3 of the Act of June 16, 1948 (62 Stat. 459), other than the first, second, and third provisos thereof."

HOUSING FOR ARMED SERVICES

EXCERPTS FROM MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT, 1966 [Public Law 89-188, approved September 16, 1965, 79 Stat. 793, 811, 818]

TITLE V

MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING

SEC. 501. The Secretary of Defense, or his designee, is authorized to construct, at the locations hereinafter named, family housing units and trailer court facilities, in the numbers hereinafter listed, but no family housing construction shall be commenced at any such location in the United States, until the Secretary shall have consulted with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as to the availability of adequate private housing at such locations. If the Secretary and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development are unable to reach agreement with respect to the availability of adequate private housing at any location, the Secretary shall immediately notify the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate, in writing, of such difference of opinion, and no contract for construction at such location shall be entered into for a period of thirty days after such notification has been given. This authority shall include the authority to acquire land, and interests in land, by gift, purchase, exchange of Government-owned land, or otherwise.

SEC. 504. Section 515 of Public Law 84-161 (69 Stat. 324, 352), as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 515. During fiscal years 1967 and 1968,1 the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively, are authorized to lease housing facilities at or near military installations in the United States and Puerto Rico for assignment as public quarters to military personnel and their dependents, if any, without rental charge, upon a determination by the Secretary of Defense, or his designee, that there is a lack of adequate housing facilities at or near such military installations. Such housing facilities may be leased on an individual basis and not more than seven thousand such units may be so leased at any one time. Expenditures for the rental of such housing facilities may not exceed an average of $160 a month for each military department, including the cost of utilities and maintenance and operation."

1 Sec. 501(a), Military Construction Authorization Act, 1967, Public Law 89-568, approved September 12, 1966, 80 Stat. 739, 753, substituted "1967 and 1968" for "1966 through and including 1967".

(b) Effective fifteen months from the date of enactment of this Act, all authorizations for construction of family housing which are contained in this Act or any Act approved prior to August 2, 1964, are repealed except (1) the authorization for family housing projects as to which appropriated funds have been obligated for construction contracts or land acquisitions or manufactured structural component contracts in whole or in part before such date, (2) the authorization for two hundred family housing units at a classified location contained in the Act of August 1, 1964 (78 Stat. 341, 359), and the authorization for 180 units at Site 4-S contained in the Act of August 1, 1964 (78 Stat. 341, 360).

SEC. 607. (a) It is the sense of Congress that all the land comprising the Bolling-Anacostia complex will be required for military purposes within the foreseeable future and should be retained by the Department of Defense for such use.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.), the Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.), the Act of June 8, 1960 (40 U.S.C. 2662), or any other law, no portion of the Bolling Air Force Base or the Anacostia Naval Air Station shall be determined excess to the needs of the holding agency or transferred, reassigned, or otherwise disposed of by such agency prior to December 31, 1970,1 nor shall any of this land be set aside or committed by the Department of Defense for use by any other agency of the Federal Government other than the Department of Defense. However, the Department of Defense may, if and when directed by the President, enter into a leasing arrangement with the Federal Aviation Agency for a period not to extend beyond December 31, 1970, and subject to a oneyear revocation provision whereby the Federal Aviation Agency or its designee may operate the runways, taxiways, hangars, parking aprons, and other related facilities at the Bolling-Anacostia complex for appropriate aviation purposes. The said lease shall not include facilities which are required for military activities. Such leasing arrangements shall be reported to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

[Excerpts from Public Law 85-861, approved September 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1437, 1459, 10 U.S.C. 2673, 2674, 2677 and 2678]

NOTE.-Public Law 85-861 amended title 10 United States Code, General Military Law. The following excerpts from that law are therefore set forth as excerpts from the Code.

1 Sec. 611, Military Construction Authorization Act, 1967, Public Law 89-568, approved September 12, 1966, 80 Stat. 739, 756, substituted "December 31, 1970" for "July 1, 1967", and added the remainder of this subsec. (b).

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