Defense-controlled lands to the total acreage in the United States is shown in Table 16. In each of six States the Department of Defense controls more than one million acres. The six are, in order of magnitude of acreage controlled, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska and Utah. Total acreage in these six States under Department of Defense control is 20.9 million representing 72.9 percent of total Defense-controlled acreage in the United States. Table 17 lists the total cost and acreage included in Defense-controlled real property for each State and the District of Columbia. The six States in which the Department of Defense has the largest real property dollar investment in order of magnitude of investment are California, Texas, Alaska, Virginia, New York and Florida. Total costs of the military real property controlled in these six States represent 37.5 percent of the total controlled in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Real properties owned and controlled on a world-wide basis by the Department of the Army on 30 June 1960 cost $9.8 billion, a 4.2 percent increase over the $9.4 billion one year earlier. Of the Army world-wide total, 91.5 percent was located within the United States, 1.4 percent in U.S. possessions, and 7.1 percent in foreign countries. Annual rentals paid by Army for property it was leasing at 30 June 1960 were up from $22.2 million one year earlier to $22.9 million. Almost one-fourth of this annual rental cost was offset by the $5.3 million Army received in rentals for its property leased to other users. |