Department of the Army real properties outside the Continental United States represented a cost of $1.3 billion on 30 June 1959, as compared with $1.2 billion one year earlier. Slightly more than half (50.6 percent) of the cost of properties outside Continental United States was in foreign countries.

Army retained a large block of Alaskan land under public domain withdrawal and temporary use permit. It also exercised base rights on 509 thousand acres in foreign countries, which was an increase of 26 thousand acres over last year.

Troop housing continued to comprise the Army's largest cost category in areas outside Continental United States. On a cost basis,

97.5 percent of the properties in areas outside the Continental

Real property controlled and used by the Navy on a world-wide

basis cost $9.0 billion, an increase of 5.5 percent over that reported one year earlier. Of the $471 million increase, 41.2 percent was in Continental United States, 30.4 percent in Alaska, Hawaii and possessions, and 28.4 percent in foreign countries.

Annual rentals received by the Navy on a world-wide basis, as of 30 June 1959, amounted to $5.9 million as compared to rental payments of $3.6 million a year earlier. Rental receipts from the industrial properties increased sharply.

Navy's acreage controlled, on a world-wide basis, was 5.3 million acres; about one-half the amount of acreage under Army control and

one-third the acreage under Air Force control. During the year, Navy world-wide acreage increased 24 thousand acres.

On a cost basis, 79.4 percent of Navy-controlled property is located within the Continental United States.

Table 22 presents

data showing costs and rentals for Navy-controlled installations in the United States by non-industrial and industrial types.

Cost of Navy properties controlled within the Continental United States on 30 June 1959 amounted to $7.2 billion, an increase of 2.8 percent over that reported for 30 June 1958. Inactive properties in the Continental United States, on a cost basis, comprised 3.6 percent of the total Navy real properties as compared with 3.5 percent a year ago. On a cost basis, the Navy industrial facilities comprised 37.1 percent of the Navy real properties within Continental United States. Of the cost of Navy industrial properties within Continental United States, only 5.6 percent were in an inactive or standby status.

Of the total acreage Navy had under its control within the Continental United States on 30 June 1959, 27.1 percent, 1.3 million acres, was owned outright. During the year an adjustment occurred whereby a large amount of land was reclassified from the public domain (permanent withdrawal) to the temporary use category. The amount of land under lease dropped from 391 thousand acres on 30 June 1958 to 223 thousand on 30 June 1959. The data in Table 23 provide certain detail relative to Navy acreage by type of tenure and installation. Of total acreage controlled by the Navy in Continental United States, 97.9 percent is located at installations which were

in an active status.

Table 22.--Costs and Rentals of Military Real Property Controlled in
Continental United States by Status and Type of Installation
as of 30 June 1959

Table 23.--Acreage of Military Real Property Controlled in
Continental United States by Status and Type of

In Table 24 data are presented showing State detail as to total cost and acreage of the military real property controlled by Navy within Continental United States. On the basis of cost, 55.1 percent of Navy's total real property investment in the Continental United States is in the six States of California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and New York. The States are ranked in order of amount invested. The heavy concentration of naval activities in the State of California is well illustrated by the fact that 24.8 percent of the Continental United States total cost is represented by California installations which have an acquisition cost of $1,775 million. In terms of acreage, 54.8 percent of the Navy Continental United States total was California land. The next largest amount

was in Nevada, which represents 23.8 percent of Navy Continental U. S. total. About 95.8 percent of the Navy public domain was in California and Nevada.

The ten categories representing the greatest cost to Navy are shown in Table 25 and are illustrated in Chart 6. In total, they constituted 59.7 percent of the over-all Navy real property costs in the Continental United States, as compared with 60.0 percent one year earlier. The broad diversification of Navy activities in the country is illustrated by the data in Table 25. While shipbuilding is one of the Navy's leading peacetime activities and accounts for a large part of Navy's in lustrial activity, there are numerous other activities of importance within the industrial field, namely, ordnance plants, various test stations (underwater laboratories, torpedo, radar,