under the line-item authorization process-this project has been authorized, but it has not been funded. In order to get it funded and go ahead with it after the line-item authorization becomes law, we must have this committee's approval.

Mr. BROOKS. But that is your own ruling. That is not the requirement of this committee, is it?

Captain ETTER. The requirement of the bill, Mr. Chairman, is that this authorization as such is good until 1960, but the Department of Defense has taken the position that in order to balance this program out, which I understand is in accordance with the committee's desires to reduce unrequired authorization, that we shall rescind everything which is not covered by funding.

Mr. DUCANDER. You say the requirements of the law say that it is good until 1960?

Captain ETTER. Yes, sir.

Mr. DUCANDER. Is that the National Defense Facilities Act? You are speaking of the bill?

Captain ETTER. I am talking about the bill.

Mr. DUCANDER. That is not law yet.

Captain ETTER. I beg your pardon.

That is right.

Mr. DUCANDER. But there is no requirement in law.

Captain ETTER. Not yet, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. He is talking about the military public works bill. Captain ETTER. I am talking about section 4 of this bill, Mr. Chair

man.

Mr. BROOKS. Which is not yet the law.

Captain ETTER. That is true, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. When do you expect to utilize this authority, assuming we approve it?

Captain ETTER. As soon as it is funded, sir. As soon as we can go ahead with it. Next year.

Mr. BROOKS. Not until 1960 or 1961. You have a 2-year period under the law.

Captain ETTER. We will go ahead with it in 1959, sir, as soon as we get authorization and funding for it.

I think there is one other compelling point, Mr. Chairman, and that is that we are protecting an investment here which has a replacement value of something over $600,000 and this lease which expires in 1972 has no renewal clause in it.

Mr. BROOKS. What do you mean, $600,000 as your investment?

Captain ETTER. If we had to replace that facility on another site it would cost us in excess of $600,000 at current market prices.

Mr. BROOKS. Although you only have an investment of $328,000? Captain ETTER. And with the additional 78, it will run around $400,000, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Let's take off the 78. You are multiplying what you are going to do.

Captain ETTER. Current replacement would be in excess of $500,000, sir. It would probably be in excess of $525,000.

Mr. BROOKS. But your investment is $328,000.

Captain ETTER. Yes, sir, current inventory at construction cost. Mr. DUCANDER. Do I understand the Marine Corps has already expended something like $100,000?

Commander MILLER. $99,500.

Mr. DUCANDER. On the 2.6?

Commander MILLER. On the 6 acres.

Mr. DUCANDER. What startled me was the 2.611 acres for the offstreet parking in a residential zone where they have been parking there for apparently some time anyway without the off-street parking. Commander MILLER. With a great deal of difficulty and problems. Mr. DUCANDER. Well, Commander, we all have problems as far as parking is concerned.

Commander MILLER. I understand that, but I am just pointing that out. The city has raised certain strenuous objections to our parking on the streets because of the numbers involved. We have absolutely no parking whatsoever in the training center.

Mr. BROOKS. I do not want to be too severe, but it seems to me that the authorities in the city are making it very difficult for you. Mr. DUCANDER. I would think so.

Mr. BROOKS. They are selling you land at $10,000 an acre and you are having to put out to start with $78,000 to protect $325,000, and you do not know how much additional you are going to have to take Ïater on. You are right in a residential area. Do you have any maps

of that?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Commander, I think what we should do with this item is to pass it over and we will take the matter up with the Real Estate Subcommittee because they passed on it. We want to work with them. At that time we will probably want the maps there to go into them because we may have to defend this on the floor and it is going to be quite a job to defend $10,000 an acre real estate for parking purposes. If that is all right, we will pass this over.

St. Petersburg, Fla., waterfront operational facilities, $26,000. Commander MILLER. This project, sir, is to install dockside services and do a minor amount of rehabilitation to an existing berthing facility at the St. Petersburg Training Center.

This is occasioned again by the necessity of providing a berthing facility for a destroyer escort of the selected Reserve forces.

Mr. BROOKS. If there is no objection to that item, it stands approved.

Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Steubenville, Ohio. Land acquisition, $18,000.

Commander MILLER. This project is to acquire the real estate upon which the training center is presently located. 1.43 acres, and an additional 1.65 acres, which is immediately across the street from it, which we presently have under an informal lease and utilize for parking space.

Mr. BROOKS. What is our investment on this property?

Commander MILLER. We presently have invested there $250,000. Mr. BROOKS. And that is the investment we have to protect? Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Which cost us $18,000?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. It runs how much an acre?

Commander MILLER. That would run $5,844 an acre, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Where is that base located? Is it within the city?

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Commander MILLER. Yes, sir, it is within the city on Cherry and Peco Streets. The reason we desire to acquire it, Mr. Chairman, is the fact that the realty company which owns both of these two areas is in legal difficulties with the city of Steubenville and there is some possibility of the land being seized by the city, which would place us in a position of having to renegotiate our leases and place us in a rather dubious position.

The court of Steubenville has inquired as to the Navy's intentions in this matter, and we have told them that we do propose to acquire the site and at the present time the court is waiting to see the results of whether or not our project to acquire the site for $18,000 is approved.

Mr. BROOKS. Now, this is right in the city itself?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Is there construction around it, subdivisions?
Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. About how far from the city limits is this located? Commander MILLER. I cannot answer that question, Mr. Chairman. I can give you the distance to downtown Steubenville as 1.2 miles. That is to the actual business district.

Mr. BROOKS. Is it commercial or residential?
Commander MILLER. Residential, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. And it is pretty well built up?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir. One side is not suitable for building. The other three sides, sir, are tract developments surrounding the training center area.

Mr. BROOKS. We will not need any more property after this is acquired?

Commander MILLER. No, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. This will be the end of land acquisition for this facility?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. It is pretty high per acre, but if there is no objection there we will approve it tentatively.

Mr. DUCANDER. Could we find out how much parking is here? Is there not 1.6 acres for parking?

Commander MILLER. That is correct.

Mr. BROOKS. How much is the parking?

Commander MILLER. The parking is the 1.65 acres.

Mr. DUCANDER. The parking is more than the other?

Commander MILLER. The parking area is more than occupied by the training center. The training center itself has no parking. We can park 16 cars in the driveway.

Mr. DUCANDER. How much, Mr. Tiencken, is the appraisal for the 1.65 acres of parking?

Mr. TIENCKEN. The appraisal is $14,100 for this $18,000 item. As you realize, we have the contingencies and the overheads and so forth charged in. It is $10,500 for the one parcel and $3,600 for the other parcel.

Mr. BROOKS. Which is which?

Commander MILLER. $3,600 would be for the parking.

Mr. BROOKS. There is quite a difference there; $4,000 for contingencies. I assume, though, the Navy will be as provident as it can be there.

Mr. TIENCKEN. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. If there is no objection, the item is approved.

Naval Reserve Training Center, White Oak, Lewiston, Md., $557,000.

Commander MILLER. This is a replacement project and an attempt on the part of the Navy to draw all of our facilities in the Silver Spring-Chevy Chase area under the roof, which is properly designed as a training center.

We are presently using some space in the National Guard Armory, some in a school, and some in Chevy Chase High School. We propose to bring them all together, on Navy property, at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and construct a standard 1-division training center of 22,640 square feet at a total cost of $557,000.

Mr. BROOKS How much land are you going to acquire here?

Commander MILLER. The Bureau of Ordnance has agreed to transfer to the Bureau of Naval Personnel approximately 4 acres, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. BROOKS. So it will cost nothing?

Commander MILLER. It will cost nothing.

Mr. BROOKS. This will give you a first-class Reserve training area for this area?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Without objection, the item will be approved.

Naval reserve electronics facility, Yakima, Wash., training facilities, $18,000.

Commander MILLER. This is also a replacement project for an electronics facility which is in an inadequate and hazardous location. We propose to build a 1,690 square-foot wing to the Marine Corps Reserve Training Center which will be built at Yakima.

The reason for the lesser amount of square footage is that we will utilize certain space within the Marine Corps Training Center to meet our requirements. This will be at a total cost of $48,000. Mr. BROOKS. Will the Marines have charge of this?

Commander MILLER. Yes, sir; the Marines will have charge of this one, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. BROOKS. Well, let the Marines handle it.

That is only $48,000 and no land acquisition?
Commander MILLER. That is right.

Mr. BROOKS. If there is no objection, it will be approved.

That will complete down to the Marine Corps Reserve ground. I think we can handle that.

We have agreed to hear General Harrison this afternoon. We can finish these three Marine Corps ground items, and then proceed to hear General Harrison.

What is your total for the Marine Corps ground?

Major HEINEMANN. A total cost of $1,156,000, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. It covers three items?

Major HEINEMANN. Four items, sir, one of which the chairman approved just a few minutes ago.

Mr. BROOKS. The first, we know about what the training is, so there is no use to go into that.

The first item is the Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Lynchburg, Va., training and land acquisition, $388,000.

Major HEINEMANN. This is a project to replace a training center in Lynchburg leased at $7,200.

The present training center is located in the second floor of a furniture store and provides approximately 38 percent of the space this unit needs. It has absolutely no outdoor space. Its shortages consist of a shortage of vehicle storage, equipment storage, classrooms, rifle range, and drill hall.

In addition, they are critically short of administrative space.

It is proposed to relocate this unit to the new training center to be built and provide the necessary space for the unit.

Mr. BROOKS. This being a marine training center?
Major HEINEMANN. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. You have host charges and privileges?
Major HEINEMANN. Yes, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Where will that be located?

Major HEINEMANN. That will be located right on the outskirts of the city, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. Is it in the high-priced land area?

Major HEINEMANN. No, sir; it is not. The city is expanding out

in that direction, but has not reached that training center as yet. In fact, they are approximately a mile and a half from there.

Mr. BROOKS. How much land will you require?

Major HEINEMANN. 8.5 acres and an easement of 12 acres.

Mr. BROOKS. What will that cost?

Major HEINEMANN. The land cost is $2,000 per acre and the easement of 112 acres will cost a total of approximately $600.

Mr. BROOKS. So a total of $4,600?

Major HEINEMANN. $2,000 per acre, and we are going to buy 81/2 acres. It would be $17,000. And then $600 for the acre-and-a-half easement, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. 812 acres? That will give you an entirely new training center?

Major HEINEMANN. That is correct, sir.

Mr. BROOKS. How many men will you have?

Major HEINEMANN. Presently 7 officers and 145 enlisted in the Reserve unit, and a permanent party of 1 officer and 8.

Mr. BROOKS. So you really train 75; is that it?

Major HEINEMANN. No, sir, 7 officers and the 145 are the reservists. It will be 152 we are currently training.

Mr. BROOKS. Any questions on this item?

Without objection, it will be approved.

Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Memphis, Tenn., training facilities, $453,000.

Major HEINEMANN. The present unit in Memphis, Tenn., occupies inadequate space in a naval and Marine Corps training center. We share the space with the Naval Reserve. There is insufficient space at this training center for both units and always has been. Both units have found terriffic success in their recruitment in Memphis. The shortages, once again, is classroom space, technical training spaces, rifle range, drill hall. These are nonexistent.

There is no outdoor space to construct any addition to this training center, and we cannot construct upward.