authorized in military public works or military construction acts, in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, United States Code, to remain available until expended, $24,000,000; and, in addition, not to exceed $20,000,000 to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense Agencies" as determined by the Secretary of Defense: Provided, That such amounts of this appropriation as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred to such appropriations of the Department of Defense available for military construction as he may designate. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY RESERVE For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the Army Reserve, as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, to remain available until expended, $4,500,000___ MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVAL RESERVE For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the reserve components of the Navy and Marine Corps, as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Act, to remain available until expended, $6,000,000 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE RESERVE For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the Air Force Reserve as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, to remain available until expended, $4,000,000--- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the Army National Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, to remain available until expended, $5,700,000‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR NATIONAL GUARD For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the Air National Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, to remain available until expended, $16,000,000_ LORAN STATIONS, DEFENSE For construction of additional loran stations by the Coast Guard, to remain available until expended, $20,500,000, which shall be transferred on approval of the Secretary of Defense to the appropriation, "Acquisition, construction, and improvements", Coast Guard. [Total, Military construction, $948,474,000.] CONSTRUCTION, ALASKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ARMY The appropriation available to the Department of the Army for "Construction, Alaska Communication System, Department of the Army" shall not be available for obligation after June 30, 1963. $24, 000, 000 4,500,000 6, 000, 000 4,000,000 5,700,000 16, 000, 000 20, 500,000 FAMILY HOUSING, DEFENSE For expenses of family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense Agencies, for construction, including acquisition, replacement, addition, expansion, extension and alteration, and for operation, maintenance, and debt payment, including leasing, minor construction, principal and interest charges and insurance premiums, as authorized by law, $637,406,000, to be obligated and expended in the Family Housing Management Account established pursuant to section 501 (a) of Public Law 87-554, in not to exceed the following amounts: For the Army: Construction, $34,681,000; Operation, maintenance, $134,154,000; For the Navy and Marine Corps: Construction, $68,248,000; Operation, maintenance, $63,621,000; For the Air Force: Construction, $61,027,000; Operation, maintenance, $105,682,000; For Defense Agencies: Construction, $50,000; Operation, maintenance, $2,546,000: Provided, That the unobligated balances in the Family Housing Management Account as of June 30, 1963, shall remain available herein. GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 101. Funds appropriated to the military departments for construction in prior years are hereby made available for construction authorized for each such department by the authorizations enacted into law during the first session of the Eighty-eighth Congress. SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work, where cost estimates exceed $25,000, to be performed within the United States, except Alaska, without the specific approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense setting forth the reasons therefor. SEC. 103. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be expended for additional costs involved in expediting construction unless the Secretary of Defense certifies such costs to be necessary to protect the national interest and establishes a reasonable completion date for each project, taking into consideration the urgency of the requirement, the type and location of the project, the climatic and seasonal conditions affecting the construction and the application of economical construction practices. SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, laundry, or drycleaning facility in the United States, its Territories or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify, in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at reasonable rates. SEC. 105. Funds appropriated to the military departments for construction are hereby made available for hire of passenger motor vehicles. SEC. 106. Funds appropriated to the military departments for construction may be used for advances to the Bureau of Public Roads. $637,406,000 Department of Commerce, for the purposes of section 210 of title 23, United States Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense. SEC. 107. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to begin construction of new bases for which specific appropriations have not been made. SEC. 108. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available for construction of family quarters for personnel shall not be obligated for such construction at a cost per family unit in excess of $22,000 on housing units for generals or equivalent; $19,800 on housing units for colonels or equivalent; $17,600 on housing units for majors and lieutenant colonels, or equivalent; $15,400 on housing units for second lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, and warrant officers, or equivalent; or $13,200 on housing units for enlisted personnel, except that when such units are constructed outside the continental United States or in Alaska, the average cost per unit of all such units shall not exceed $32,000 and in no event shall the individual cost exceed $40,000. SEC. 109. No part of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to incur obligations for the planning, design, or construction of facilities for an Air Force Academy the total cost of which will be in excess of $141,523,000, except for construction pursuant to section 2674 of title 10, United States Code, as amended. SEC. 110. No part of the funds provided in this Act shall be used for purchase of land or land easements in excess of 100 per centum of the value as determined by the Corps of Engineers or the Bureau of Yards and Docks, except: (a) where there is a determination of value by a Federal court, (b) purchases negotiated by the Attorney General or his designee, and (c) where the estimated value is less than $25,000. SEC. 111. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to make payments under contracts for any project in a foreign country unless the Secretary of Defense or his designee, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee, certifies to the Congress that the use, by purchase from the Treasury, of currencies of such country acquired pursuant to law is not feasible for the purpose, stating the reason therefor. SEC. 112. This Act may be cited as the Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1964. Approved December 21, 1963. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY HOUSE REPORTS: No. 901 (Comm. on Appropriations), No. 1036 (Comm. of SENATE REPORT No. 750 (Comm. on Appropriations). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 109 (1963): Nov. 18: Considered and passed House. Dec. 19: Considered and passed Senate, amended. Dec. 13: House and Senate agreed to conference report. Grand total, Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1964-- $1,585,880,000 PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATION ACT, 1964 Public Law 88-257 88th Congress, H.R. 9140 December 31, 1963 AN ACT Making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority and certain river basin commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority and certain river basin commissions, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE-CIVIL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CEMETERIAL EXPENSES SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary cemeterial expenses as authorized by law, including maintenance, operation, and improvement of national cemeteries, and purchase of headstones and markers for unmarked graves; purchase of two passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; maintenance of that portion of Congressional Cemetery to which the United States has title, Confederate burial places under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, and graves used by the Army in commercial cemeteries; $10,800,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be used to repair more than a single approach road to any national cemetery: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be obligated for construction of a superintendent's lodge or family quarters at a cost per unit in excess of $17,000, but such limitation may be increased by such additional amounts as may be required to provide office space, public comfort rooms, or space for the storage of Government property within the same structure: Provided further, That reimbursement shall be made to the applicable military appropriation for the pay and allowances of any military personnel performing services primarily for the purposes of this appropriation. CORPS OF ENGINEERS-CIVIL The following appropriations shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of 167 $10, 800, 000 Engineers for authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and related purposes: GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects, and when authorized by law, surveys and studies of projects prior to authorization for construction, $19,115,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That $210,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for studies, investigations, and reports thereon as required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 563-565) to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development programs of the Department of the Army. CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects authorized by law; and detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of projects (including those for development with participation or under consideration for participation by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a commitment of the Government to construction); $827,146,500, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for projects not authorized by law or which are authorized by law limiting the amount to be appropriated therefor, except as may be within the limits of the amount now or hereafter authorized to be appropriated: Provided further, That $500,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for studies, investigations, and reports thereon as required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 563-565) to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development programs of the Department of the Army. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and related works, including such sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality or other public agency, outside of harbor lines, and serving essential needs of general commerce and navigation; financing the United States share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the remedial works in the Niagara River; activities of the California Debris Commission; administration of laws pertaining to preservation of navigable waters; surveys and charting of northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening channels; removal of obstructions to navigation; and emergency flood control and shore protection activities; $154,000,000, to remain available until expended. GENERAL EXPENSES For expenses necessary for general administration and related functions in the Office of the Chief of Engineers and offices of the Division Engineers; activities of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and the Beach Erosion Board; commercial statistics; and miscellaneous investigations; $15,000,000– – $19, 115, 000 827, 146, 500 154, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 |