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Table 25.--Quantity and Cost of 10 Largest Categories of Military Real Property

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Dwellings only (excludes trailers and detached facilities).

2/ Excludes liquid fuel, ammunition, and cold storage.

3/ Includes operating plants and distribution lines.

Piers and wharves; excludes seawalls, bulkheads and other waterfront facilities 5/ Feet of berthing.

of the Navy real property world-wide total, 8.7 percent

($914 million) was in foreign countries as of 30 June 1966. At

the end of the previous year the amount was $878 million. Investment in U. S. possessions by the Navy totaled $672 million at end of fiscal year 1966.

Acreage controlled by the Navy in foreign countries as of

30 June 1966 amounted to 248 thousand as compared with 413 thousand one year earlier. The amount of acreage controlled by the Navy in possessions was 85 thousand acres. A sizeable segment of acreage used by the Navy was returned to the Philippine Government during

the year.

5. Department of the Air Force

World-wide real property under Air Force control on 30 June 1966 cost the Government $16.98 billion. This represented 44 percent of the Department of Defense total investment in military real property. The Air Force total increased 2.3 percent during the year. Of the $389 million increase, $302 million was in properties in the United States. Investment in real properties of the Air Force outside of the United States on 30 June 1966 comprised 17.5 percent (about onesixth) of all Air Force properties.

Air Force annual rentals paid for property used throughout the world on the basis of leases in effect on 30 June 1966 amounted to $11.1 million, or $109 thousand less than the $11.21 million one year earlier. Of the $11.1 million, 59 percent was for properties in foreign countries and 41 percent for properties in the United States.

Returns to the Air Force on the basis of leases in effect on

30 June 1966 for Air Force properties used by others amounted to $1.27 million.

This decrease

Land controlled by the Air Force throughout the world totaled 11.38 million acres on 30 June 1966, a decrease of 242 thousand acres from the 11.62 million acres reported a year earlier. was made up of 115 thousand acres in the United States and 127 thousand acres in foreign countries. The 1966 world-wide amount is the lowest reported during the past thirteen years and is 7.78 million acres less than that reported by the Air Force on 30 June 1957.

The data in Table 26 show that military real property controlled by the Air Force within the United States represented a cost to the Government of $14.0 billion. Of the total world-wide Air Force investment, 83 percent represented installations within the United States, two percent in U. S. possessions and 15 percent in foreign countries. of the Air Force U. S. total investment, 8.5 percent is at inactive and standby installations as compared with 5.2 precent one year earlier.

Industrial activities under Air Force control, all of

which are contractor operated, constituted only 5.1 percent of the total Air Force property cost in the United States. As of 30 June 1966, on a dollar basis, 4.5 percent of the industrial properties was in a standby status.

The reduction of 115 thousand acres under Air Force control within the United States during the year ending 30 June 1966 was accounted for partly by a reduction of 95 thousand in leased land; other changes

Table 26 --Cost and Rentals of Military Real Property Controlled in
the United States by Status and Type of Installation
as of 30 June 1966

A - COST TO U. S. GOVERNMENT 1/

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

(Thousands of Dollars)

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involved a reduction of 108 thousand in public domain offset

largely by an increase in lands used on a temporary basis.

Of the 16.5 million acres held as withdrawals from public domain by the Department of Defense within the United States, the Air Force controls 42 percent. Much of this land is used for missile ranges and advanced fighter bomber training. Of the 9.4 million acres held by Air Force in the United States on 30 June 1966, 1.7 million (18 percent) was owned and 7.0 million (74 percent) was public domain land. Table 27 provides additional detail on categories of lands held by the Air Force.

The state pattern of military real property controlled by the Air Force is shown in Table 28. The Air Force has properties costing more than one-half billion dollars in the states of California, Texas, Alaska, Florida, New York and Kansas. These properties amount to 38 percent of the total cost for the Air Force in the United States. Those in California, on an investment basis, are 11 percent of the Air Force U. S. total. The Air Force has some real properties in each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. The acreage of land controlled in Nevada and Arizona, each with over two million acres comprised 61.5 percent of the total Air Forcecontrolled acreage in this country. Two other states (Florida and Utah) each have well over one-half million acres in use by the

Air Force. The major part (90 percent) of the Air Force-controlled acreage in these four states is land from the public domain.

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