1/ Excludes 10,183,608 acres under the jurisdiction of the Civil Works Division, Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. 2/ Excludes 6 acres under the jurisdiction of the Civil Works Division, Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army Table 16 Acreage in United States Compared to Acreage Under the Department of Defense By Type of Tenure Easements Public Land 2/.. Gross area (April 1, 1960), Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1970 2 million acres and nearly 2 million acres in a sixth state (see Table 17). The 6 states are, in order of magnitude of acreage controlled: California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Alaska, and Utah. Total acreage in these 6 states under Department of Defense control is 19.4 million, representing 74.1 percent of total Defense-controlled acreage in the United States. Of all DOD controlled acreage within the United States nearly one-sixth is in California. The 8 states in which the Department of Defense has more than a $1 billion investment in real property, in order of magnitude of investment are: California, Texas, Alaska, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, New York, and Hawaii. Total costs of the military real property controlled in these 8 states ($15.3 billion) represent 45 percent of the total controlled in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Property in California totals $4.8 billion or 14 percent of the total controlled by the Department of Defense within the United States. 3. Department of the Army Real properties owned and controlled on a world-wide basis by the Department of Army on 30 June 1970 cost $12.3 billion, an increase of $361 million (3 percent) over the $12.0 billion one year earlier. About 57 percent of this increase was in the United States. Of the Army world-wide total on a cost basis, 85 percent was located within the United States, 3 percent in U. S. possessions, and 12 percent in foreign countries. Annual rentals ($37.7 million) paid by Army for property it was leasing world-wide on 30 June 1970 was about the same as at the previous |