MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION
FISCAL YEAR 1968

JOINT HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEES ON MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

AND THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETIETH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1241 (H.R. 11722)

A BILL TO AUTHORIZE CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION AT
MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, AND FOR

OTHER PURPOSES

81-915

JULY 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, AND 25, 1967

Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1967

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia, Chairman

WILLIAM H. DARDEN, Chief of Staff
CHARLES B. KIRBOW, Chief Clerk

SUBCOMMITTEE ON MILITARY CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS

AND APPROPRIATIONS-1968

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1967

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEES ON MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

AND THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

Washington, D.C.

The Military Construction Subcommittees of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations met in joint. session at 10:05 a.m., in room 212, Old Senate Office Building, Hon. Henry M. Jackson (chairman) presiding. Hon. Alan Bible, cochair

man.

Present: Senators Jackson, Bible, Ellender, Yarborough, Cannon, Young of North Dakota, Thurmond, and Tower.

Also present: William H. Point, Director of Real Property Management, Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations); John M. Mullen, Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs); Col. Joseph C. Dyer, U.S. Army, Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logisties).

Present from the staff of the Committee on Armed Services: Gordon A. Nease, professional staff member; Charles B. Kirbow, chief clerk; and Herbert S. Atkinson, assistant chief clerk.

Present from the staff of the Committee on Appropriations: Vorley M. Rexroad, professional staff member; and Edmund L. Hartung, minority counsel.

Senator JACKSON. The subcommittees will come to order.

We are meeting this morning to begin hearings on S. 1241, the military construction authorization bill for fiscal year 1968, in joint session with the Subcommittee on Military Construction of the Appropriations Committee.

(A copy of S. 1241 follows:)

[S. 1241, 90th Cong., first sess.]

A BILL To authorize certain construction at military installations and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I

SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Army may establish or develop military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating, or installing permanent or temporary public works, including site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment for the following projects:

INSIDE THE UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND

(First Army)

Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Operational and training facilities, research, development, and test facilities, and administrative facilities, $6,539,000.

Fort Devens, Massachusetts: Maintenance facilities, and utilities, $1,304,000. Fort Dix, New Jersey: Hospital facilities, $2,585,000.

Fort Eustis, Virginia: Training facilities, maintenance facilities, and utilities, $1,616,000.

Fort Hamilton, New York: Operational facilities, $127,000.

A. P. Hill Military Reservation, Virginia: Training facilities, supply facilities, troop housing, and utilites, $4,893,000.

Fort Holabird, Maryland: Administrative facilities, $588,000.

Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania: Training facilities, $581,000.

Fort Knox, Kentucky: Training facilities, administrative facilities, community facilities, and utilities, $5,134,000.

Fort Lee, Virginia: Training facilities, maintenance facilities, research, development and test facilities, medical facilities, and utilities, $2,224,000.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: Hospital facilities, administrative facilities, and utilities, $5,580,000.

Fort Monroe, Virginia: Utilities, $450,000.

Camp Pickett, Virginia: Training facilities, maintenance facilities, supply facilities, utilities, and site improvements, $1,385,000.

(Third Army)

Fort Benning, Georgia: Troop housing and utilities, $3,759,000.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Operational and training facilities, maintenance facilities, supply facilities, administrative facilities, troop housing, and utilities, $18,007,000.

Fort Campbell, Kentucky: Hospital facilities, administrative facilities, and utilities, $1,654,000.

Fort Gordon, Georgia: Training facilities, supply facilities, utilities, and real estate, $4,364,000.

Fort Jackson, South Carolina: Training facilities and hospital facilities, $10,517,000.

Fort Rucker, Alabama: Training facilities and troop housing, $2,118,000.

(Fourth Army)

Fort Bliss, Texas: Training facilities, supply facilities, administrative facilities, and utilities, $2,387,000.

Fort Hood, Texas: Maintenance facilities and utilities, $3,075,000. Fort Polk, Louisiana: Training facilities, and supply facilities, $1,148,000. Fort Sill, Oklahoma: Training facilities, medical facilities, and community facilities, $4,145,000.

Fort Wolters, Texas: Utilities, $379,000.

(Fifth Army)

Fort Carson, Colorado: Operational and training facilities, maintenance facilities, troop housing and community facilities, and utilities, $20,929,000.

Fort Benjamn Harrison, Indiana: Operational facilities, administrative facilities, and utilities, $5,102,000.

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Administrative facilities, $392,000.

Fort Riley, Kansas: Training facilities, maintenance facilities, medical facilities, troop housing, and utilities, $22,122,000.

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri: Training facilities, medical facilities, community facilities, and utilities, $2,575,000.