several industrials during the year. Of the active industrial installations, 42 percent on a dollar basis, was operated by the Government and the remainder (58 percent) was operated by contractors. Annual rentals paid by Army for property it leases in the United States, amounting to $10.54 million, were offset considerably by rentals received in the amount of $4.38 million. Of the rentals received, 56 percent was from industrial properties. The total acreage controlled by Army within the United States is reported in Table 19 by status and by type of tenure and installation. Of the 14.08 million acres controlled by the Army within the United States, 4.18 million (30 percent) were owned and 7.27 million (52 percent) were public domain lands. The increase of about 80 thousand in acreage classified as owned by the Army within the United States was offset slightly by a reduction of about 6 thousand in public domain lands. The acreage and cost to the Government of the military real property controlled by Army in each of the States and the District of Columbia within the United States are shown in Table 20. Four states had Army real properties costing more than one-half billion dollars; in order of magnitude these were Virginia, Texas, California, and Alaska. The cost ($2.4 billion) of the properties in these four States constituted 25 percent of Army's total United States cost. The total acreage (9.96 million) controlled by Army in the five States each having over one million acres; i.e., New Mexico, Alaska, Utah, California and Arizona, constituted nearly 71 percent of its United States acreage. Virtually all (98 percent) of the public domain land under Army control was located in the five States of New Mexico, Alaska, Arizona, Utah, and California. Slightly more than one-half (51.6 percent) of all of the total acreage controlled by Army in the United States is public domain land. The ten categories of real property in which Army had the greatest dollar investment in the United States are presented in Table 21. They are illustrated in Chart 6 along with Navy and Air Force data. The total cost represented by the ten largest Army categories is $6.37 billion, 65.5 percent or two-thirds of the total Army United States cost. The category of heat utilities replaced ammunition storage as the tenth category by size of investment. Slightly more than one billion dollars is invested in troop housing, the largest category. Family housing is in the number two position, following troop housing, with investment of $974 million in dwelling units in the United States. Troop housing and family housing constitute 10.7 and 10.0 percent, respectively, of the total Army property inventory cost in the United States. Department of the Army real properties in foreign countries represented a cost of $985 million on 30 June 1966, as compared with about $800 million four years earlier. An increase during the year of about $135 million in Army investment in possessions resulted primarily from inclusion in inventory for the first time of an installation previously held by the Navy. The Army had control through base rights and leases of slightly more than one million acres in foreign countries at the end of fiscal year 1966. In possessions about 97 thousand acres were under Army control. |