and conditions as in his judgment will be in the public interest, with the lessee or ultimate purchaser of the surplus portion of the installation, for the joint use and operation of the water distribution system, sanitary and storm sewers, and the central heating plant.

The general over-all purpose of the proposed legislation is as stated in its title. The proposed bill contains three titles and is designed to provide, in a single omnibus bill, authority for making such land and land-easement transfers as are necessary to the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The specific purposes of the proposed legislation can best be shown by a brief title and subsectional analysis:

TITLE I-NAVY EASEMENTS

This title would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant certain easements, the purposes of which are outlined in the paragraphs below. Section 101: (a) It was found during the war that certain multistoried buildings contiguous to the New York naval shipyard wall were an obstacle to the yard's security. The property was accordingly obtained by condemnation and the structures thereon razed. The land thus obtained is the parcel involved herein. It is located outside the wall of the shipyard and because of its high elevation above the rest of the shipyard property, no direct means of access to it from the shipyard could be constructed. It has been utilized for parking and storage.

The street expansion program of the city of New York (Borough of Brooklyn) includes the extension of Navy Street, which follows the wall of the shipyard, across the parcel of land. Accordingly, the president of the Borough of Brooklyn has requested the Navy Department to convey this parcel to the city of New York to be used for public-highway purposes.

The prime purpose of the acquisition of this parcel of land was accomplished with the removal of the buildings thereon and it is considered of little future value in connection with the naval shipyard.

This item was introduced in the second session of the Eightieth Congress as H. R. 6709 and S. 2737. The former bill passed the House of Representatives on June 16, 1948, but was not reached for consideration in the Senate.

Granting of the proposed easement will not result in any additional cost to the Government.

(b) The United States acquired the land (across which the Southern Counties Gas Co.'s pipe line initially ran) in condemnation proceedings, title being taken "subject to existing power lines, telephone, and other public-utility easements." When the State of California relocated its State Highway No. 99 (U. S. Highway No. 101), it became necessary for the Southern Counties Gas Co. to relocate its pipe. The company has quitclaimed all its interest in the abandoned rightof-way to the United States, in consideration of which the Navy Department granted the company a revocable permit for the use of the relocated area and also agreed to recommend legislation authorizing an easement in the new area comparable to that formerly held in the old area.

The pipe involved is a 12-inch gas line which is the only source of natural gas supply to the city of San Diego.

This item was introduced in the second session of the Eightieth Congress as H. R. 6889 and S. 2846; neither bill was reached for consideration.

Granting of the proposed easement will entail no cost to the Govern

ment.

(c) There are two privately owned parcels of land at Cherry Point, N. C., which, except for their highway frontage, are completely surrounded by lands of an off-station housing project at the Marine Corps air base. One of these parcels, comprising 2.94 acres, has been developed as a commercial center. The other, consisting of 3.4 acres, has been developed by the State of North Carolina to provide educational facilities for children of tenants quartered in the housing project.

The Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corporation (a subsidiary of the Rural Electrification Administration) is the only commercial producer of electrical energy equipped to supply the required power to these enterprises. The Corporation has made application to the Secretary of the Navy for the necessary easements over lands of the housing project. In addition to the easements required to service these enterprises, the Corporation also desires to furnish electric services to certain private owners located north of the project.

No improvements have been constructed by the Government on any of the requested right-of-way areas except a sidewalk and entrance walks to apartments occupied by civilian employees at the station. It is believed that the granting of the requested easement will entail no cost to the Government.

(d) This measure would enable the State of Missouri to widen the Natural Bridge Road (now 60 feet in width) to 150 feet where it traverses the United States naval air station, Lambert Field, by authorizing an easement in two strips of land belonging to the United States; one strip is located on the north side of Natural Bridge Road and is 70 feet wide. The other strip is located on the south side and is 20 feet wide.

The strip of land which lies to the south is part of 21.5 acres conveyed to the United States by the city of St. Louis by deed dated February 24, 1941. That deed contains the express proviso

that if the United States of America shall fail to use the lands herein conveyed for naval aviation purposes for a period of five (5) years then all right, title, and interest to the land shall revert to the city of St. Louis and the buildings and equipment shall be removed or otherwise disposed of by the United States of America.

The proposed measure, therefore, specifically retains in the Government certain rights which are essential to the Navy Department's continued use for the purposes required by the deed. In addition, the measure provides that the easement shall be subject to existing rights of the city of St. Louis in said lands under the afore-mentioned deed.

In applying for the right to use these lands, the Missouri Highway Commission has agreed to assume the cost and responsibility for the necessary removal and relocation of a brick structure known as the station brig and to reimburse the Navy Department for all expenses incurred in relocating fences and other structures, or otherwise, as the result of any improvements by the Commission, and to that

end the Commission has deposited funds in the Navy Department in the amount of the estimated cost of such charges.

The State is to provide improvements including grading, culverts, storm sewers, a bridge and a portland concrete pavement of variable width providing four traffic lanes throughout, part of which will be separated by a parkway and parts of which will provide additional lanes for parking.

Granting of the proposed easement will not interfere with naval functions. It is considered that the improved traffic facilities resulting therefrom will be of substantial benefit to the naval station as well as to the general public. Accordingly, such easement should be granted to the State without reimbursement therefor.

(e) In the construction of an access road to serve the Quonset hut development at the boat basin. Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif., it was necessary to erect an overpass over the right-of-way of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co. This required the relocation of the Santa Fe Western Union Signal and Postal Telegraph lines to obtain proper clearance. To permit the Government's contractor to proceed with the necessary construction without delay, the railroad company issued a "construction permit" authorizing the Government to enter the premises and proceed with the project. The Navy Department in turn issued a permit authorizing the company to proceed with its relocation construction.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co., has requested a permanent easement covering its relocated facilities, and, it is considered desirable that the Government likewise acquire a permanent easement with respect to its facilities.

The granting of the proposed easement would result in no additional cost to the Government.

The transmission lines of the Virginia Electric & Power Co. across the northern end of the Marine Barracks at Quantico, Va., so seriously hampered the maneuvering of troops, the firing of artillery pieces and the free use of training installations in the area that their early removal was considered essential to the safe use of the area. Accordingly, an agreement was reached with the Virginia Electric & Power Co. to relocate its lines across other points of the reservation. The company was given a revocable permit for this purpose pending congressional authority for the granting of an easement over the new location in exchange for the company's conveyance to the United States of its rights in the existing right-of-way.

The proposed easement would involve no additional cost to the Government.

(g) The Federal Works Agency, on behalf of Johnson County, Kans., has made application for permanent easement rights in the strip of land described in the proposed bill.

The proposed easement would permit Johnson County, Kans., to widen (to 60 feet) the Federal-aid secondary road running along the westerly side of flying field No. 2, United States naval air station, Olathe, Kans.

The county engineer of Johnson County has reported to the Navy Department that because of the public benefit involved all of the other land owners affected by this project have agreed to grant the county, without charge, the necessary easements in their respective properties.

The granting of this easement will in no way impair the value of the outlying field for the purposes of the Navy as a flying field, and would result in no additional cost to the Government. The original cost to the Government of the parcel of land involved was $30.

(h) The purpose of the easement proposed in this subsection is to enable the State of California to relocate that portion of State Highway No. 395 now lying between Camp Elliot and the naval auxiliary air station, Miramar, Calif., so that it will traverse lands within Camp Elliot. The acquisition of this easement is a part of a project involving the construction of a new highway north of the city limits of San Diego, Calif., which is a realinement of the present State Highway No. 395. As realined, it will traverse a portion of the Homoja housing area, naval auxiliary air station, Miramar. The remainder of the highway will not affect or limit the use of the property by the Government. The State of California has agreed to move, at the State's expense, the Homoja huts and apartments within the proposed right-of-way to the Kearney Homoja housing area within the boundaries of the United States naval auxiliary air station, Miramar, and in addition to build a new access street to replace that portion of the present road system for the Homoja housing area included in the proposed new highway right-of-way. The actual area involved in the proposed easement is a strip of land containing approximately 61 acres.

The granting of the proposed easement would involve no additional cost to the Government.

(i) The granting of the easement described in this subsection would make available to the State of Oregon a strip of land for the construction of a portion of the Oregon Federal-aid highway project known as the Tillamook-Pleasant Valley section of the Oregon Coast Highway.

To accomplish this purpose the Federal Works Agency (Public Roads Administration), on behalf of the State Highway Commission of Oregon, has made application to the Navy Department for a perpetual easement in a strip of land 40 feet wide running along the westerly boundary of the United States naval air station, Tillamook, Oreg., and containing approximately 4.42 acres.

At the present time the naval air station, Tillamook, Oreg., has been placed in an inactive status, and a lease is being negotiated with the county of Tillamook for use of the property as a public airport. The granting of the proposed easement will result in no additional cost to the Government.

In connection with its plans for providing additional sewage facilities for a rapidly expanding population in the vicinity of the naval fuel annex, San Pedro, Calif., the County Sanitation District No. 2, of Los Angeles County, has made application for an easement so that it may construct, use, and operate a 12-foot outfall sewer line, within a tunnel, under a 20-foot strip of land of the United States within the limits of said naval fuel annex, and paralleling an existing 8-foot sewer line within said tunnel.

In its application, the sanitation district has pointed out that this additional proposed line, together with the existing line, will serve an area of approximately 400 square miles and is a very important and urgent improvement in Los Angeles County. It is the belief of the Navy Department that the additional sewage facilities which will be provided by the proposed additional line are highly necessary and

that the alinement proposed by the sanitation district for the sewer is most logical.

Granting of the proposed easement will not affect the Government's use of the property. The increased sewage facilities which will be constructed will result in substantial public benefit.

The granting of the proposed easement will not interfere with naval functions and will involve no additional cost to the Government.

(k) In 1943 the United States acquired by condemnation a tract of land situated in the city of Warren, Ohio, comprising 19.13 acres. The open sewer, which traverses this tract of land, created an unsatisfactory condition and, therefore, the city of Warren has made application to the Navy Department for an easement for the construction of a sewer-pipe line to correct the situation. It is considered that such construction would be in the public interest and will involve no additional cost to the Government.

(1) The purpose of this subsection is to enable the Public Service Co. of Indiana, Ind., to expand its distribution services with a new 132-kilovolt transmission line from its Edwardsport, Ind., generating plant to Bedford, Ind. The new transmission line would be erected along the north side of a 66-kilovolt line which is owned and operated by the company, and which now traverses the United States naval ammunition depot, Crane, Ind.

The existing 66-kilovolt transmission line right-of-way was acquired by the company before the Navy Department gained title to the land, which title was taken subject to the right of existing public utility

easements.

The installation of the new transmission line will not interfere with the security and operation of the depot. It appears essential to the establishment of a satisfactory means of distributing a large block of power from the Public Service Co.'s new generating plant to the area where it will be used.

The requested right-of-way area contains approximately 80.8 acres for which the Secretary of the Navy will require, as a condition precedent to the conveyance, payment by the grantee to the United States of a sum equal to its fair market value.

TITLE II-ARMY EASEMENT

Section 201: The purpose of this measure is to fulfill certain contractual obligations of the United States Government. If granted, the easement would give the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Co. a right-of-way, for railroad purposes, over a strip of land containing approximately 8.41 acres. The easement would be granted in exchange for the relinquishment by the company of all its interest (including the existing right-of-way for railroad purposes) in a parcel of land containing approximately 412.14 acres and forming a part of the Fort Emory Military Reservation.

TITLE III-MISCELLANEOUS LAND TRANSFERS

The Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force desire to participate in certain land transfers, different in nature than those previously described herein. Title III would grant the necessary authority for them to do so. The purposes of the said land transfers are hereinafter described.