Now, if the Federal Republic, the Republic of Germany, has difficulty in acquiring these additional 3 hectares from the local communities, then it will cost the United States approximately $750 annually for leasing, on a leasing basis.

If the Federal Republic is successful in expropriating these 3 hectares from the local community, then the outright purchase as agreed to by the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany will complete the whole deal.

The reason why it has not been done thus far is the Federal Republic of Germany requires a certain amount of assurance from the U.S. side that we are, in fact, going to build on the real estate provided.

Now, that necessarily must depend on these hearings as to whether it is approved or not.

Senator CANNON. Is this enough to do this whole project or do you contemplate coming back at some future time?

General SHULER. This is the complete paving requirement is for 71,870 square yards and this is what we are requesting. This is the complete project. The deficiency is listed on page 294 in the table at the left lower corner, 71,870 square yards.

Senator CANNON. And you have no other way of satisfying this requirement?

General SHULER. No, sir.

Senator CANNON. Except to get along as you have been doing up to the present.

General SHULER. Yes, sir. It is a very inadequate, hazardous operation.

U.S. ARMY, SOUTHERN COMMAND

FORT BUCHANAN, P.R.

Senator Inouye (now presiding). General, may we now proceed to page 296?

General SHULER. Mr. Chairman, this involves a request for four line items in Puerto Rico, Fort Buchanan. The Army respectfully requests that we be allowed to withdraw all these items because the entire matter is now being restudied, sir.

Senator CANNON. These are all withdrawn.

General SHULER. Yes, sir. There are all the items at Fort Buchanan.

FORT CLAYTON, PANAMA CANAL ZONE

Senator INOUYE. The Canal Zone, 301.

General SHULER. This is a request for one item which is an emergency power supply. This requirement is to fully support the objective of improving our strategic communications in the Caribbean area and Central and South America.

The present emergency power requirements are met by a single 312 kilovolt-ampere power unit and we are in a bad position because if something happened, we could not continue our operation at this very important communication center.

This involves an addition to a building, a diesel generator and some piling and hoists.

Senator INOUYE. How many power supply centers do you have in the Canal Zone? By that, I mean I presume the Navy is there also. Do they have a power supply there?

General SHULER. Sir, this facility would be right at this center and would be the type of power that I described this morning where we must have very close voltage regulation, no fluctuations. If we have that, the load will drop, and it will take a long while to resynchronize the system. This has an automatic startup feature in it, too. We have had a number of these types of units in the past.

Senator INOUYE. What sort of power do you have now?

General SHULER. We use commercial power, sir, as the primary source. For emergency power, we have one 312 kilovolt-ampere power unit which is wholely inadequate to meet the present demand load of our 500 kilovolt-amperes. Programed signal equipment will increase this load to over 900 kilovolt-amperes.

SECTION 102

Senator INOUYE. Section 102.

FORT RITCHIE, MD.

General SHULER. I believe the next item we have is another clear item that we did not take up before, at page 308, Fort Ritchie.

The first item on page 308 is not classified. That is a request for aircraft fuel storage which is on page 309, and this would provide, sir, underground storage for aircraft fuel here. Presently we are using temporarily facilities which consist of four tank cars secured on a rail spur approximately in the center of the post. This is not only a misuse of rolling stock but it is not a proper thing safetywise to do, sir. Fort Ritchie is quite an important location to us.

Senator INOUYE. I notice it says it is a costly expenditure. About how much do you estimate?

General SHULER. Our current procedures are to store 30,000 gallons of aviation gas and 10,000 gallons of JP-4, that is jet fuel, in four 10,000 gallon Army-owned railroad tank cars. Three cars containing aviation gas must be traded with Fort Meade once each year at a transportation cost of $600 per car, or $1,800 per year. The reason for this is that neither the tank cars nor the tank truck used in dispensing operations have adequate water and impurity separators. Therefore, we have to clean these cars out annually. So we do actually have an expensive operation.

Senator INOUYE. Shall we proceed, sir?

FORT GREELY, ALASKA

General SHULER. On page 361, sir, we have an item in the clear, Fort Greely, Alaska-361, sir, which is the request for a sewage treatment plant addition. This, sir, will provide for construction of a wet burning process type of sewage plant, interceptor and outflow Ines and electric service. The present facility does not meet current Federal pollution control standards and is designed for a peak population of 2,100. The addition of family housing will ultimately increase re

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quirements to a design population of 4,650. This will provide adequate sewage treatment at this station.

Senator INOUYE. Would this provide also protection to the surroundings from pollution?

FORT RICHARDSON, ALASKA

General SHULER. Yes, sir. At Fort Richardson, Alaska, we have a request. On page 366 is an unclassified request for range facilities at Fort Richardson. All the armor units must undergo at least once annually a tank gunnery qualification here. The machine gunner range is required to meet training requirements and the present facilities we have are improvised nonstandard ranges built by troop effort on an expedient basis. This creates a bad safety situation and also the training is not as efficient as it would be otherwise. This will alleviate the situation.

Senator INOUYE. How many men would be using this range?

General SHULER. Well, first of all, it would be 2,000 men of the Alaska National Guard, and about 6,000 Regular Army personnel requiring-firing various weapons.

On the next item, page 367, I understand the chairman would like to defer this for a special hearing. This is the fuel conversion project in Alaska.

Senator INOUYE. I presume we will be having an open public hearing on this. At that time we would wish to have you or your representatives present the Army's position.

General SHULER. Yes, sir. We will be here.

Senator INOUYE. This is the coal to gas conversion.
General SHULER. That is correct.

NORTHERN AREA COMMAND, GERMANY

The next item is on page 375 which is in the European area. This is a request for control

Senator INOUYE. General, I notice that we are skipping around. Is that item on page 369 classified.

General SHULER. It is classified confidential; yes, sir.

Senator INOUYE. It is listed in here.

General SHULER. I believe you have a clear version but I have mine stamped because in order to justify this completely, I would have to go into confidential information. I would prefer to take that up in executive session if we may, sir.

The item on page 375, for controlled humidity storage, is to place under this type storage pre-positioned equipment which we now have in Germany for an armored division and an infantry division. This is similar to a project that Congress has given us under our emergency programing and we feel that we accomplish two things by this. One is we can fly the troops over there and they can mate up with this equipment. The equipment doesn't have to be transported overseas. And secondly, the humidity control cuts down on the depreciation of the equipment, helps out our maintenance, cuts down on rust.

Much of this equipment is delicate. Even the artillery pieces and that type thing have electronic controls. This is a very important project, sir, and I am sure it will save us a lot of maintenance effort

and money besides being a military necessity. The equipment we are talking about is valued at $210 million.

Senator INOUYE. General, do you have controlled humidity storage facilities at the present time in Germany?

General SHULER. We have a project under construction in Germany that the Congress approved. I would like to inquire of my backup witnesses if we actually have any controlled humidity storage in service. We do not have any completed in this area but this, of course, has been completely proved commercially.

Senator INOUYE. If that project goes through, what percent of your equipment will be under controlled humidity storage?

General SHULER. Can you answer that? Give your name.

Mr. MAGATHAN. I am Mr. Magathan, Department of the Army, DCSLOG.

If the project is approved and constructed and completed, we will have about 12,800 short tons of a total of 108,000 short tons under controlled humidity storage. This represents equipment for about 10 supporting units which are required to support these two divisions that we are discussing here. So it will be approximately 10 to 15 percent of our equipment that will be under controlled humidity storage conditions with the approval of the 10 support unit projects. This project will take care of the balance of that equipment.

Senator INOUYE. This is the final phase, General?

General SHULER. Yes, sir.

Senator CANNON. If you say only 10 or 15 percent will be under controlled humidity storage, do you propose that the other 85 to 90 percent will never be under storage of this type?

Mr. MAGATHAN. This is in two increments. The first increment the House and Senate approved last year on an emergency basis, took care of high priority supporting units. This is the 10 to 15 percent I am talking about when I say it will be under controlled humidity conditions when the project is completed.

This project we are talking about here, sir, will take care of the balance, that is, the two division sets of equipment.

Senator CANNON. So that you will have everything then under controlled storage?

Mr. MAGATHAN. Everything will be under controlled humidity storage conditions, yes, sir.

Senator INOUYE. You do have these facilities elsewhere, don't you, General?

General SHULER. Yes, sir; in the United States.

Senator INOUYE. And you have found that these facilities do protect our equipment appropriately?

General SHULER. Yes, sir. They reduce our maintenance or extend the period that the equipment still remains in high quality shape without maintenance. It is a very good proposition.

Senator INOUYE. So actually this is a saving for our Nation? General SHULER. It is a saving; yes, sir, and we don't have to ship this equipment over the water. It is already prepositioned over

there.

Senator INOUYE. Please proceed, sir.

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE

KWAJALEIN ATOLL

General SHULER. The next item in the clear is in the Kwajalein area, page 379. The first item here, we are requesting actually five items. The NIKE X SPRINT facilities, which is a large item, housing on Ebeye Island for the natives, refrigerated warehouse, repair project for the cargo pier, and air conditioning of the barracks.

I have two witnesses here, sir, on this program after I finish with my presentation who will be available to answer any questions on any further matters.

The first item will provide the research and development support facilities for the Nike X test program on Kwajalein. This requires specially designed structures compatible with the systems.

In addition to the structures, air conditioning, power generating, and pumping equipment is required to support the Nike X technical equipment. We have had certain technical studies going on since fiscal year 1965. This is the research and development project as I know you will understand. And these have resulted in a shift in the schedules in the development of this Nike X system.

The total funding levels will remain essentially the same although adjustments in schedule are required.

The fiscal year 1965 program provided $27 million authorization and $25.5 million appropriations for facilities to support Nike X research and development. Construction scheduled in fiscal year 1965 will be less than originally planned; $10.7 million will slip. Advertising planned early in fiscal year 1966, and $14.7 million is deferred to fiscal year 1967 as a result of realinement in the technical development schedules.

Additionally, new projects, that is, $16.9 million in fiscal year 1966 and some additional in fiscal year 1967, will increase the work to be constructed in those fiscal years.

In summary, projects totaling $50.3 million are planned for award. My witnesses, sir, are capable of explaining why we have had to shift the time scheduling of doing the particular phases of this. So I would like to have them come forward if I may at this time.

Senator INOUYE. Will you identify yourself.

General SHULER. Pardon me. May I ask permission to go into executive session on this one bit of testimony and then we can add it in the proper place?

Senator INOUYE. We have a few more pages here and we will go into executive session for the rest.

General SHULER. May I defer that until then?

Senator INOUYE. Fine.

Pages 379 and 380 will be deferred until we go into executive session. General SHULER. Page 381. Request for a refrigerated warehouse. This will provide 5,000 square feet of additional refrigerated storage space with supporting utilities. The remote location of Kwajalein makes it necessary to maintain a larger stock of food supplies than is usual. The extreme humidity requires refrigeration of staples such as sugar and flour in order to prevent spoilage.