Senator INOUYE. Any questions? Senator SALTONSTALL. The only question I have, Mr. Chairman, concerns Fort Belvoir, where you show a very substantial number of square feet, as opposed to beds. I am just curious as to what that means. General SHULER. This is the addition to an existing hospital, the only one in the program. The others are new hospitals. This is for an outpatient clinic expansion, medical supply, and other medical services, not for the expansion of beds, sir. That is why it is in square feet. Senator SALTONSTALL. I see. So it isn't for hospital patients. It is for outpatients. General SHULER. It is for outpatient service at the Fort Belvoir permanent hospital which already has been constructed several years ago. Senator SALTONSTALL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. DENTAL CLINICS Colonel JOHNSON. The next grouping is dental clinics. Dental clinics are programed on a population basis to replace facilities built during World War II or improvised by diverting space. The new clinics are located in population centers and do not duplicate facilities associated with a hospital. They are designed to provide the authorized dental service to Army personnel in an efficient and effective manner. Four of the clinics proposed in this year's program support training centers and division installations. One 12-chair clinic replaces an improvised clinic now in use. In all cases the construction of these clinics will result in the demolition of old wornout buildings. Senator INOUYE. Any questions? DISPENSARIES Colonel JOHNSON. The next grouping is dispensaries. These are programed to provide a medical facility at those Army installations too small to justify a small hospital, at installations of large population where sick call cannot be held at the hospital, or are located near enough to other medical facilities large enough to accommodate the additional workload. This program contains one dispensary designed to provide medical and health services under the Federal Civilian Health Service program, and two dispensaries at isolated oversea installations. Senator INOUYE. To be in the category of "too small" Army installations for a hospital, what would be the population? General SHULER. Sir, in the case of the Army Security Agency stations here, these can run as small as 300 or 400 men, sir in an isolated oversea location on a special mission. The Cameron Station facility is to support the Defense Supply Agency and certain Army personnel at Cameron Station, which is a small station. I do not have the-Bob, do you have the number at Cameron Station, GSA? May I furnish that for the record? It is quite small. The type of medical facility required to serve an installation, be it a dispensary or hospital, is not determined solely on the basis of number of personnel served. Equally important is the relationship to other medical treatment facilities, the isolation of the installation, the bed requirements, and the mission of the facility. Generally, hospitals are necessary when inpatient care is provided and there is a requirement for more than 25 beds. A dispensary provides outpatient care and, if it has beds for observation of patients awaiting transfer to hospital or holding patients whose period of illness is expected to be less than 72 hours, the number of beds normally is less than 25 beds. At Cameron Station, Va., where the mission is primarily to provide outpatient care for the 2,354 civilian employees and the 319 assigned military, 2 holding beds will be provided. A dispensary will serve this mission, since these patients will be hospitalized at other installations or hospitals. Senator INOUYE. Yes. Please proceed, sir. ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITIES Colonel JOHNSON. The next grouping is administrative facilities. There are 11 projects in this year's program to provide adequate working space for office personnel at Army activities where such space is grossly deficient. Many personnel are presently working in inadequate, makeshift facilities, such as open-bay warehouses, World War II barracks, space previously used for industrial operations and small scattered areas intermingled with maintenance operations. Environmental conditions are below the standards required for efficient administrative work. Lighting, ventilation, heating and cooling systems are inadequate and thereby reduce productivity and employee morale. The personnel for whom these facilities are requested are engaged in command, combat development and logistics management activities. The management decisions for which these personnel are responsible involve several billion dollars annually. Senator INOUYE. What will happen to the existing facilities? General SHULER. Sir, the answer to that is quite different in each case. I will say this, that wherever we can use an existing permanent building in conjunction with the new headquarters, we are so doing. But in most cases this involves a number of spread-out facilities. For instance, at Fort Monroe on the Continental Army Command Headquarters, there are at least 18 different facilities dating back into the 1800's that are being utilized. Some of those will be destroyed. Some go back to troop use from which they had been taken. But as a general principle we do try not to abandon a permanent building. Senator INOUYE. Can you explain the first item, Federal office building, and the one designated Naval Supply Center? General SHULER. The Naval Supply Center is at Bayonne, N.J., and both of these items have to do with the closing out of Brooklyn Army Terminal, moving of missions from there into these facilities. The Naval Supply Center consists of four projects that must be built at Bayonne to move the Brooklyn Army Terminal mission into. There are other missions, Navy, Air Force and Army, which we think should stay in the Brooklyn area so that the people will not try to get other jobs but stay in that area. We wish to retain all we can of those people because they are qualified. This is the rehabilitation of a portion of the Federal office building that is under the jurisdiction of GSA. Senator INOUYE. Why isn't GSA doing the work? General SHULER. This is normal, sir. They would do it for us. We went to them and they were willing to have us go in the building, but their budget timing was such that they could not guarantee that we could get this done using their budget process in anywhere near the time we need it to move the mission. We could do it in this program, sir, and I don't think that this is without precedent, requesting this in an MCA program, sir. Senator INOUYE. Will the maintenance come under the GSA? Senator INOUYE. Any questions? Please proceed. TROOP HOUSING COMPLEXES Colonel JOHNSON. The next grouping is troop housing complexes. Troop housing at Army permanent installations consists of three types: 1. Permanent structures. 2. Temporary improved structures, which are primarily World War II mobilization type buildings modernized for 10 years more use in 1955 and 1957. 3. Temporary unimproved structures, which are the substandard World War II structures that have never been modernized in any fashion. To meet a total long-range requirement of over 407,000 barracks spaces in the United States, the Army has 255,000 spaces in permanent structures, about 63 percent of the need. Over one-third of enlisted personnel must now occupy unimproved barracks, or barracks improved in fiscal year 1955 to 1957 era. In order of magnitude the deficit is located as follows: One-half of the deficit is at six recruit training posts; one-fourth of the deficit is at seven division posts; one-fourth of the deficit is at other posts such as hospitals, schools depots, headquarters, and so forth. Primary emphasis is being given to the recruit training posts and the division stations. Master planning for troop housing is based on authorized longrange requirements. Before budget presentation, however, the request for any station is reduced to the current requirement if this happens to be less than the long-range requirement. Our approach to the barracks construction program is to deal in balanced "packages" of approximately regimental size, whenever possible. Such a complex must provide administrative and supply facilities at the battalion level, and at the regimental or group level, such additional support facilities as a gymnasium, a chapel, a branch post exchange, and a dispensary. Since the temporary World War II barracks have already served over four times their 5-year economical life expectancy already, it is urgent that the present rate of barracks replacement be sustained toward erasing the deficit about fiscal year 1973 before structural failures require an exorbitant funding level. Senator INOUYE. According to the Department of Defense policy, what must your population be in order to qualify for a gymnasium, a chapel, a post exchange, or dispensary? If the information is not available, will you furnish it for the record? General SHULER. It is available but not here, sir. We will be glad to furnish it for the record. Senator INOUYE. Thank you, sir. The Department of Defense policy on providing gymnasiums, chapels, post exchanges, dispensaries, enlisted men's service clubs and libraries follows: Gymnasiums Gymnasiums are authorized on the following basis: An additional gymnasium at 20,500 square feet is authorized for each 3,300 enlisted men above 7,000. Chapels Installations with a population of 500 or over are authorized a chapel. Religious facilities for a population of under 500 are provided for in other available facilities. The number of chapels and total seating capacity for the various installations is determined from the following: The 300-seat chapel is designed to satisfy the requirements of a 10-barracks complex. Post exchange A main post exchange is provided for each installation. The size of the exchange is dependent on the military strength of the installation as follows: In addition to the main exchange a branch exchange of 4,800 square feet so located as to provide adequate exchange coverage of the installation may be provided for each additional 2,500 military strength at installations having a military strength of 5,000 or more. Dispensaries At large military installations, or at certain installations where no hospital exists, and the number of military and dependent personnel warrant, one or more separate dispensaries may be established to supplement the hospital and furnish more effective medical care. Dispensaries are generally authorized as the basis of one for each separate group of approximately 3,300 individuals. Enlisted men service clubs Enlisted men service clubs are authorized on the following basis: Enlisted strength: 250 or less____ 251 to 500-‒‒‒ 501 to 750___ 4,001 to 5,000‒‒‒‒‒ The provisions of service club facilities for strengths above 5,000 are determined by the number and location of troop, accessibility of other recreational facilities, and the needs of an installation. One additional service club of 27,800 square feet for each increment of 5,000 personnel constitutes the maximum allowance over the first 5,000 military strength. Libraries Main libraries are authorized on the following basis: Military strength: Up to 500_. 501 to 1,500___. 1,501 to 2,500‒‒‒‒ 2,501 to 4,000‒‒‒‒‒ 4,001 to 6,000‒‒‒‒‒ 6,001 to 8,000. 8,001 to 12,000-- 12,001 to 16,000___. Over 16,000‒‒‒‒ Gross square-foot area 3 square feet per person-accom modated in other facilities. 2,500. 4,800. 6,000. 7,800. 8,800. 10,300. 12,700. 14,400. In addition to the main library, installations are allowed branch libraries determined by the number and location of troops and the needs peculiar to the installation. At installations with a military population in excess of 10,000, branch library space of 4,000 gross square feet is provided for each increment of 3,000 military strength over 10,000. Senator CANNON. General, what was the extent of the funding last year on these new-on these troop housing complexes? General SHULER. It is approximately the same, sir, except that there is a requested addition to this program which we take up later at Fort Riley which would have to be added to this here, a $9 million partial complex. We are also asking the deletion of a like amount of money for another project and this is a substitution. But the effort is about the same. It is a combination of these complexes and separate barracks such as medical barracks where we build them next to the hospital. They are not part of a complex. Senator ČANNON. I understand that but I am referreing just to the troop housing complex. It seems to me that this level is a little higher than last year's and I was anxious to find out whether or not that was the case. General SHULER. I will be glad to, sir. Senator CANNON. Would you supply that for the record? |