Fiscal year projects submitted by States for authorization not included in fiscal year 1961 authorization request-Continued (NOTE. The following letter from Congressman James A. Burke, of Massachusetts, was received subsequent to this hearing and is hereby made a part of the record at this point:) Hon. JOHN STENNIS, APRIL 29, 1960. Chairman, Military Construction Subcommittee, Senate Armed Services Committee, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I wish to thank you for letting me express my views regarding the military-construction-authorization bill now pending before your committee. Maj. Gen. William Harrison, adjutant general, Massachusetts National Guard, has appeared before your committee regarding armories for the city of Brockton, Mass., and the town of Weymouth, Mass. As you already know, I am also interested in these projects. I wish to be recorded as endorsing the stand taken, before your committee, by General Harrison with regards to these two armories. Again, may I express my thanks and, with best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, JAMES A. BURKE, Senator STENNIS. The next item on the docket here is the Boardman Bombing Range, and the witness is Mr. Samuel Mallicoat, deputy director of the Oregon State Department of Planning and Develop ment. You desire to appear in support of an amendment to the bill offered by Senators Morse and Lusk to permit exchange of certain Stateowned lands for lands now owned by the Federal Government consisting of the Boardman Bombing Range? Mr. MALLICOAT. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. This is under the Navy's jurisdiction, and the Navy is assisting in bringing about this exchange of land? Mr. MALLICOAT. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. Do you have a written statement, sir? Mr. MALLICOAT. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. You speak for the people of Oregon on this, do you? Mr. MALLICOAT. Yes, sir; I do. Senator STENNIS. All right. Mr. MALLICOAT. I will be very brief, Senator. Senator STENNIS. We do not want to unduly rush you. If you want to put it in the record and then summarize it, or if you would rather read all of it, why, we will hear you. Mr. MALLICOAT. It is just a very brief statement, and I will ask to insert a portion of it in the record. Senator STENNIS. All right. You may start, even at the expense of having to stop. STATEMENT OF SAMUEL H. MALLICOAT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Mr. MALLICOAT. Mr. Chairman and members of this subcommittee, I am Samuel H. Mallicoat; I am appearing before your committee on behalf of the State of Oregon. The people of Oregon appreciate this opportunity to be heard on a matter so vital and important to the economic development of their State. On April 1, 1960, Senators Morse and Lusk, of Oregon, introduced an amendment to the military construction authorization bill, H.R. 10777. Subsequently, Congressman Al Ullman, representing the Second District of Oregon, has asked that additional language be incorporated in the Senators' amendment. This amendment is before your committee today. The Honorable Mark O. Hatfield, Governor of Oregon, respectfully requests that your committee give favorable consideration to the proposal incorporated in this amendment which, in effect, will authorize the transfer of the lands incorporated in the Boardman Bombing Range, Morrow County, Oreg., to the State of Oregon in exchange for State-owned lands in the southeastern part of the State of equal value. The people of the State of Oregon have been very favorably impressed with the reaction of the various governmental departments and agencies toward the proposed exchange and no known opposition exists to the proposal by any department or agency of the Federal Govern ment. The people of the State of Oregon are also mindful of the problem presented to the Navy in your review of the Navy's request, in August 1959, asking for the transfer of the Boardman Bombing Range from the Air Force to the Navy. Your committee very forcefully brought to the Navy's attention the fact that the bombing range occupied an area that held significant potential as an industrial site upon completion of the John Day Dam, by imposing a qualification to their approval that the Navy would be expected to reconsider the continued use of the range upon completion of the project. The Navy has demonstrated its need for a bombing range and for that reason the State of Oregon has agreed to provide for their needs in another part of the State by offering lands of equal value to the Navy in exchange for the Boardman property. The State's willingness to meet the Navy's requirements is further demonstrated by the fact that the State of Oregon is willing to underwrite the cost of transferring existing facilities from Boardman to the new site. Enclosures (1), (2), and (3) are offered as evidence of the State's good faith. Congressional approval of the proposed transfer will permit the orderly economic development of an area of Oregon to its highest and best use and will permit the Navy to meet its operational needs at no additional cost to the Federal Government. Mr. Chairman, I request that there appear in the hearing record a copy of the resolution adopted by the Oregon State Land Board, which consists of the Governor, secretary of state, and the State treasurer, approving the proposed land transfer. In addition, I request that the resolution adopted by the Oregon State Emergency Board approving the expenditure of State funds with respect to the land transfer be included in the hearing record, together with correspondence between th Governor of Oregon and the Department of the Navy on this matter. Mr. Chairman, thank you again for this opportunity to appear before your committee. Senator STENNIS. All right. The material will be admitted into the record by unanimous consent. Mr. MALLICOAT. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. As well as the other matter attached to it. (The documents referred to follow :) ENCLOSURE 1 Whereas the U.S. Government is the owner of 96,138.55 acres of land located in Morrow County, Oreg., and lying within the vicinity of Boardman, which land is presently being used by the U.S. Navy as a bombing range; and Whereas it is the desire of the State of Oregon to acquire title to said property for industrial development purposes; and Whereas the U.S. Government has indicated that it would look favorably upon the exchange of said area with the State of Oregon for a tract of land of approximately the same acreage or land of equal value located in Lake County and lying a short distance southwesterly from Wagontire, Oreg., such Lake County land to be used for a bombing range or for such other purposes as the Secretary of the Navy may determine; and Whereas the State of Oregon owns several sections of school land within the area referred to in Lake County; and Whereas the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, which Department is in charge of the public domain, has indicated that it would grant to the State of Oregon sufficient public domain in the Lake County area to form a block of land sufficient to meet the requirements of the Secretary of the Navy, such land to be exchanged for lands belonging to the State of Oregon and lying within Lake County of equal value: Now, therefore, the State Land Board of the State of Oregon, having jurisdiction over lands belonging to the State, hereby authorize negotiations leading to a transfer of sufficient public domain to meet the requirements for establishing a bombing area near Wagontire by transferring title to the Department of the Interior to a sufficient amount of State lands lying in Lake County of equal value in exchange for lands lying within the proposed Lake County bombing area. OREGON STATE LAND BOARD, MARK O. HATFIELD, Governor, STATE OF OREGON OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE STATE LAND BOARD I, E. T. Pierce, clerk of the State Land Board of the State of Oregon, and custodian of records and seal of such board, do hereby certify that the foregoing copy of a resolution, approved by the State land board on April 5, 1960, and appearing on pages 415 and 416 in book 22, record of minutes of board meetings, has been compared by me with the original resolution on file in this office and is a true and correct copy thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed hereunto the seal of the said board. Done at the capitol, at Salem, Oreg., this sixth day of April 1960. E. T. PIERCE, Clerk of the State Land Board. Re Op-442E2/nb Ser 1099P44. ENCLOSURE 2 STATE OF OREGON, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Salem, April 25, 1960. Rear Adm. MILES H. HUBBARD, Director, Logistics Plans Division, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. DEAR ADMIRAL HUBBARD: I have delayed answering your letter of March 25 until very specific answers could be given to the conditions regarding the relocation of the Boardman Bombing Range which were outlined in your letter. I am now in a position to state conclusively that the State of Oregon will underwrite all costs incident to the relocation of the Boardman range. In a recent action, the State emergency board reserved funds necessary to underwrite such costs. It is quite agreeable to the State that the Navy may continue to use the Boardman range until a replacement range is operationally ready. In turn, we have one condition which we would wish to make a part of the agreement for relocation. At the present time, grazing is permitted on a major portion of the Boardman Bombing Range. In order that there may be no dislocation of our livestock industry, we would request that like permission be granted on any newly established bombing range. The cooperative attitude which the Navy Department has demonstrated is most sincerely appreciated. Sincerely yours, MARK O. HATFIELD, Governor. Hon. MARK O. HATFIELD, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, MY DEAR GOVERNOR HATFIELD: At a meeting in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) on March 24, 1960 with Mr. Mallicoat and Mr. Tarr of your staff, it was felt appropriate that two points regarding the Boardman range and its relocation be resolved between the Navy and your office. The first point is will the State of Oregon underwrite all costs incident to the relocation of the Boardman range? The second point is that the Navy will continue to use the Boardman range until a replacement range is in all respects operationally ready. My office is proceeding with the problem of processing the airspace requirement incident to the relocation of the Boardman range, and I trust that will be resolved shortly. I well appreciate the urgency of completing the arrangements necessary for the transfer of the Boardman property, and assure you of the complete cooperation of the Navy Department. Sincerely yours, MILES H. HUBBARD, ENCLOSURE 3 EXCERPT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE STATE EMERGENCY BOARD MEETING HELD IN THE STATE CAPITAL AT SALEM, OREG., ON APRIL 22, 1960 "A motion by Senator Corbett, seconded by Representative Davis, that the emergency board, acting under the provisions of ORS 291.326(1) (a), reserve in the appropriation made by section 1, chapter 486, Oregon laws 1959, the sum of $412,600 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay to the Department of the Navy its cost of providing a complete substitute facility on the lands to be transferred to the Navy Department by the State of Oregon, in exchange for those lands comprising the Boardman Bombing Range in the county of Morrow, to be transferred to the State of Oregon, was, upon rollcall vote, unanimously adopted." WALTER J. PEARSON, Chairman, Emergency Board. Senator STENNIS. We are going to have to answer the quorum call, and we want you to answer two questions when we get back. Are you familiar with and do you approve of the Ullman amendment? Andsomeone representing the Navy-are you familiar with and do you approve the Ullman amendment? If you will excuse us now, we will go over to the Senate floor to answer the rollcall, vote, and return as quickly as we can, after which we will take up this additional witness I called a while ago. (Short recess.) Senator STENNIS. All right, gentlemen. May we have quiet, please. All right, you may proceed further now. You know we had those two questions. Whether or not you approved this Ullman amendment. Yours was on the land; that is right. The Ullman amendment applied to the land item. Do you approve of that, sir? Mr. MALLICOAT. We have no objection to the Ullman amendment. Senator STENNIS. What does the Navy say about the Ullman amendment? |