Ordnance Depot. Perform depot maintenance and functional tests of artillery materiel. Inspects and repairs small arms gages.

The only line item requested is for sewage disposal facilities at an estimated cost of $337,000. This item is required to comply with law prohibiting the discharge of raw sewage into inland waters. At the present time the sewage from the different sections of the arsenal empties into the Carquinez Straits and Suisan Bay. In the interest of economy the Government proposes to connect the Benicia Arsenal sewer system into the city of Benicia sewage disposal plant, which was recently constructed and sized to treat all of the sewage from Benicia Arsenal.

It was initiated. It had been on our program for some time but with a low priority. The House introduced this requirement in accordance with the requests of local people to speed it up to avoid pollution in the bay. There was a working agreement with the nearby city of Benicia, that they would provide the sewage disposal plant, and the Army would provide the trunk sewer to take care of the Benicia Arsenal refuse into the city system, and this now enables completion of the system.

Senator STENNIS. In other words, the Army had promised to do this?

General SEEMAN. It had been an agreement, sir. The exact timing as to when it would be carried out was not specific, and now we are including it in our program.

Senator STENNIS. You say you are including it in your program. You mean you are supporting it here. The House put it in.

General SEEMAN. Yes, we had considered it of somewhat lower priority at the time we formulated our program.

Senator STENNIS. I understand that this item is necessary to comply with local law, is that correct?

General SEEMAN. Also to comply with an Executive order regarding cooperation in the matter of pollution control.

Senator STENNIS. The question is, is it necessary now to comply with local law?

General SEEMAN. It is.

Senator CASE. They say they are including it in the program. Does that mean that you are including it in your funding program too? General SEEMAN. Both in authorization and funding, yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. All right, you seem to make a strong case on it. Next item?

PUEBLO ORDNANCE DEPOT, COLO.

General SEEMAN. Pueblo Ordnance Depot on page 18.

The mission of this depot is to receive and store general supplies and ammunition. Issues items related to missiles to all installations west of the Mississippi and in the Pacific. Only one line is requested, special weapons support facilities in the amount of $369,000.

This project will supplement the existing interim facility, which has limited capabilities. The existing facilities at the installation will be utilized in connection with this operation, to the maximum extent possible. Due to the specialized nature of the work, certain facilities must be specifically designed for this operation. It is esti

mated that it would cost in excess of $1 million to construct an entirely new facility. Other justification is classified and is included in separate submission.

There are no excess facilities within the geographical area which could meet this requirement.

This has a supporting classified justification in the classified book, sir, which I will not go into here. Basically this is to supplement our existing facility to provide for a higher type of ammunition.

Senator STENNIS. All right, I suppose we might put that down for executive session.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALA.

General SEEMAN. The next installation is Redstone Arsenal, Ala., on page 20. It is responsible for management of the Army's rocket, guided missile and ballistic missile systems and is the home of the Army Ordnance Guided Missile School. There are three line items requested at this station at a total cost of $1 million.

The first line item is for a fire and rescue station at the installation's airfield for $82,000. This project will provide a shelter and operations point for fire apparatus required during all takeoffs and landings of aircraft.

Construction of a fire station at the arsenal airfield is necessary to house firefighting apparatus and crews. The presence of the firefighting apparatus and a crew is required at the airfield to comply with aircraft crash rescue regulations. Until a station is constructed at the airfield, it will be necessary to dispatch fire trucks from existing fire stations on the arsenal a distance of 2 to 5 miles to meet incoming planes. After completion of this project, crews will be stationed permanently at the airfield and expensive operation of heavy equipment from existing station to the airfield daily will no longer be required.

The second line item is an extension of Martin Road at a cost of $743,000.

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Construction of additional road is essential to relieve the serious traffic congestion on existing roads, especially Patton Road from intersection of Martin Road to city of Huntsville. The average 24-hour traffic count for entering and leaving the installation has increased from 5,022 in January 1952 to 50,662. The count for Patton Road alone, for the same period, has increased from 1,250 to 34,599. congested conditions are hazardous, especially during peak periods when vehicles are forced to travel bumper to bumper. Daily reporting time is staggered over a period of 60 minutes a.m. and p.m., in an effort to relieve congestion; employees participate in "share the ride" and car pool transportation methods encouraged by this installation, but the critical condition still exists and is becoming more critical daily.

This is just the segment on the Government property, sir. It has a companion project with the Bureau of Public Roads in what we call our access road program which comes under our general authorization. This has been under study for some time. They have acquired certain of the land off the post, and this is the companion one for us to keep up with them.

Senator STENNIS. We don't want to be small, but you have a $176 million institution down there already. I was around there 2 or 3 days. I declare I never saw so many roads in my life. Do they really have to have three-quarters of a million dollars extra to extend a road?

General SEEMAN. As the little old lady said at the Pentagon regarding traffic congestion, they are already on stagnant hours. They stagger their work hours to overcome this peak load. This is what they hope to do.

Senator STENNIS. I understand the State has already built this part of the road; is that right?

General SEEMAN. No; our access roads program is in coordination with the Bureau of Public Roads and they go to the State highway commission to carry out the actual work. We provide the support through our Bureau of Public Roads.

The third line item is for "Water storage" at a cost of $175,000.

This includes the construction of three water tanks of 600,000 gallons total capacity with connecting waterlines, security lighting, and telemetering circuits.

This addition to the water storage capacity is required in the arsenal domestic water system for the overall support of the existing facilities. The new storage tanks and reservoir will be located in areas where domestic water must be used for fire demands because industrial water is not available. It is not economically feasible to install new mains to and throughout these areas when, to meet the required flow and pressure, the installing of domestic water storage will suffice. Also, this project will boost the pressure in the domestic waterlines that serve residential areas.

We reviewed it in light of the recent decision with regard to NASA and the Ordnance program.

Senator STENNIS. NASA is asking for a great many new buildings down there.

I thought the Army was going to give up their quarters and let NASA move in. How many million is it? It is several million requested.

Senator CASE. For NASA's building?

Senator STENNIS. Yes, at Redstone.

Senator CASE. It is $50 million here.

General SEEMAN. There was sort of a King Solomon's decision made with regard to one item. We both had requirements for computer building and a headquarters building, and the agreement was that one would take one and one would take the other. I understand that NASA has serious requirements there, and we do too. So we will probably hear more of that.

Senator STENNIS. Yes; it is an important installation.

General SEEMAN. It is a growing program and a vital program.
Senator STENNIS. Next item, unless there are further questions.

UMATILLA ORDNANCE DEPOT, OREG.

General SEEMAN. The mission of this depot is to receive, store.. and distribute strategic materials, including ammunition and critical General Services Administration materials.

Only one line is requested, namely, physical security facilities in the amount of $319,000.

This project involves the enclosing of 100 existing igloo magazines with a chain link fence and with guardhouse, anti-intrusion system and extensions to existing roads and utilities.

This project is required to provide adequate protection for the storage of classified ammunition items in accordance with the requirements of existing security regulations and to protect information affecting the national defense of the United States. In the event this item is not approved and is delayed, a minimum of nine guard posts must be manned at all times in order to afford adequate protection for these items, at an estimated cost of $225,000 annually. If the requested item is approved, only three guard posts are required to be manned, at a most of $75,000 annually. This is an annual saving of $150,000. In addition, as a minimum, the entire area must be lighted at an estimated cost of approximately $88,000.

WATERTOWN ARSENAL, MASS.

The next installation is Watertown Arsenal, Mass. Its main mission is support effort devoted to development, engineering, and manufacture of rocket and missile launchers (surface to surface) and special weapons. It also does basic and supporting research on ferrous metals and alloys, uranium, beryllium, other metals, and materials. There are three line items requested totalling $1,849,000.

The first line item is physical metallurgy facilities in the amount of $275,000. By renovation of undeveloped portion of an existing building, space will be provided for basic and applied research in physical metallurgy on ultrahigh strength materials. This requires complex experimental equipment and techniques such as X-ray diffraction, internal friction, crystallography equipment to study the microstructure of the materials. Currently used facilities are insufficient and scattered and the absolute necessity for utilizing highvacuum techniques requires that the physical metallurgy facilities be consolidated to attain both efficient operation and increased research potential so necessary to assure development and exploitation of new high-strength materials. The present facilities will be retained in research where high vacuum and temperatures are not required. Rehabilitation of existing areas could not be accomplished incorporating all required facilities without increase in floor area such as is considered in this project.

Construction of this facility will provide savings in the form of increased efficiency of operations resulting in improved productivity effecting direct savings of $25,000 to $35,000 per year by the reduction of need for external contracts to obtain data and other technical information not obtainable within the arsenal.

The second line item is modification of building 292 to a laboratory at $1,041,000. This will consolidate various facilities concerned with radioactive materials and will connect the building with the research nuclear reactor recently installed adjacent. Facility is required to provide adequate supporting laboratories and work areas to conduct its research programs in problems of ordnance materials. There programs are applied and basic research in the physical sci

ences, particularly in the field of solid state physics, physical metallurgy, physical chemistry, and crystal chemistry.

The interconnecting of building 292 with the nuclear reactor will provide, in addition to the essential minimum operation area, a central laboratory for conducting programs using the nuclear reactor as a tool and for related programs, experimental and theoretical, using other techniques, such as, nuclear and paramagnetic resonance spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy. At this time, the above activities are scattered in building 39 and in all cases there is inadequate space and no room for expansion. These laboratories will release floor space within the reactor shell, thus allowing maximum utilization of the experimental facilities of the nuclear reactor. Senator STENNIS. What kind of a building is that, that you are converting over, 292?

General SEEMAN. It is one of the existing buildings at the Watertown Arsenal that has been in service for sometime, and, as you know, it is for metallurgical research.

The ordnance has a nuclear reactor in this area. This is to provide facilities in and near the nuclear reactor building to provide them with an integrated facility to properly use it.

The third line item is to convert building 312 to a laboratory costing $533,000.

This involves conversion of a portion of the existing permanenttype industrial building to use by beryllium and uranium research and development facilities. Extreme toxic hazards of beryllium and mildly radioactive hazards of uranium requires unique ventilation and filtering control, smooth hard surfaces on floors, walls and ceilings all with rounded corners and of fireproof construction.

This facility is needed to conduct research and development of ductile beryllium metal and beryllium and uranium alloy for use as loadcarrying members of military items. The present facilities are various scattered temporary facilities, inefficient, unsafe and not designed for this research work. A new research and development facility which will permit development of and/or refinement of processing techniques to provide ductile beryllium as well as development of beryllium alloy which will have even more desirable properties for particular application is more urgently required. The phenomenal strength/weight ratio with the extremely high modulus of elasticity make the material of paramount concern to Ordnance. Present Ordnance uses of beryllium are limited to selected usage in non-loadcarrying members, and its use in load-carrying members where its full potentialities can be utilized can only be realized from intensive research and development activity. During the past several months extensive uranium facilities and capabilities have been developed on a crash basis for urgently required research and development components on special weapons. The AEC uranium alloys program is not geared to development of structural materials.

Senator STENNIS. Page 27, Watertown Arsenal is the principal development, engineering and manufacturing installation in the field of antiaircraft artillery weapons.

You are not running experiments now in antiaircraft artillery weapons, are you, General?