Table 25.--Quantity and Cost of 10 Largest Categories of Military Real Property in Continental United States by Category Excludes liquid fuel, ammunition, and cold storage Includes operating plants and distribution lines. Piers and wharves; excludes seawalls, bulkheads and other waterfront facilities. Feet Berth electronics, ballistics, etc.), powder factories, ammunition depots, and other munitions type production. Within Continental United States, the largest Navy amount is invested in the maintenance facility category. Of the Navy real property total, 20.6 percent ($1.8 million) was Of this total, $1,387 million was and $469 million was in foreign outside Continental United States. in Alaska, Hawaii and possessions countries as of 30 June 1959. The Navy controlled 309 thousand acres in Alaska, Hawaii and possessions and 321 thousand in foreign countries on 30 June 1959. The ten largest categories of real property in Alaska, Hawaii and possessions represent a cost to the U. S. Government of $959 million, and in foreign countries, $324 million. 5. Department of the Air Force World-wide real property under Air Force control on 30 June 1959 cost the Government $11.3 billion. This represented, as indicated earlier in the report, 38.0 percent of the Department of Defense total. A part of the 18.6 percent increase ($1.8 billion) over that of one year earlier was attributable to completion and transfer to inventory of properties constructed during recent years. About 68 percent of the total increase was recorded in properties within Continental United States. Air Force annual rentals paid for property world-wide increased during the year ending 30 June 1959 from $5.0 million to $5.6 million. Reductions in rentals paid within Continental United States were more than offset by increases in foreign countries. About 31 percent of the world-wide rental bill is offset by receipts from properties leased to others in the amount of $1.7 million. Land controlled by the Air Force all over the world totaled 15.7 million acres on 30 June 1959, a drop of 5.9 percent from the 16.7 million acres reported a year earlier. Part of the 1.1 million acre reduction within Continental United States was offset by an increase of 96 thousand acres in foreign countries. The data in Table 26 show that Air Force controlled military real property within the Continental United States represented a cost to the Government of $7.3 billion, as compared with the $6.1 billion a year earlier. Of the total world-wide Air Force investment, about two-thirds covered installations within Continental United States. Of the Continental U. S. total investment, 5.3 percent is at inactive and standby installations. Industrial activities under Air Force control, all of which are contractor operated, constituted 10.3 percent of the Continental United States total Air Force property cost. On a dollar basis, 18.2 percent of the Air Force industrial investment was covered by inactive and standby plants. Air Force-controlled acreage within the Continental United States was approximately 12 million acres on 30 June 1959. The over-all decrease of 1.1 million acres within Continental United States during the year was largely reflected in reductions of 930 thousand acres of public domain land and 152 thousand acres of leased land. Of the 15.1 million acres withdrawn from public domain for Department of |