system with substations to serve all activities, and construction of a permanent Diesel power plant (building and accessories only) at Agana for ten 700-kilowatt Diesel generators. The Diesel units have previously been procured for another location, and the cost thereof is not included in the project.

BASIS OF REQUIREMENT

(a) The existing power generation facilities on Guam consist of seven Diesel electric plants of which six plants are presently interconnected by 13,000-volt transmission lines and numerous advance base-type gasoline driven units of small capacity which are not tied in to the island distribution system. The total capacity of the seven Diesel plants and a floating power plant is 17,800 kilowatts. The existing Diesel plants were constructed during wartime of inferior materials and have about reached the end of their useful life. The numerous small advance base-type generators are practically worn out. Funds and manpower are not available for the high cost of upkeep of the existing power generation facilities. The proposed permanent power-generation facilities are required to replace wornout equipment, to provide for the increase in power demand due to the installation of electric stoves and water heaters in various buildings and to provide for the increase in power demand required for new facilities, such as barracks, housing for family units, additional industrial facilities, POL system, naval radio station, naval supply center and hospital.

It is

(b) The naval operating base, by virtue of its strategic location in the western Pacific, is important to the Navy for support of the antisubmarine and reconnaissance operations, for support of Navy and Army vessels, essential for local operations and outlying facilities in the Marianas area, for communications purposes and for aviation support to naval forces operating in the western Pacific. essential to support military air transport service to Japan and other places in the Orient. Its geographic location renders Guam a strategically important base which in emergency could be rapidly expanded to provide support for task forces. Guam is an important link in the Navy-wide communication system for the western Pacific and Philippine Islands. The base is essential for logistic support for the government of Guam and the government of the trust territory, which are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior.

(a) The purpose of this project is to develop a new source of water supply and a water distribution system for the Military Shore Establishment on Guam. It is a unit in the over-all program for the development of the utilities, source and distribution systems, including power, water, sewerage and telephone systems, which are estimated to cost $30,350,000 and for which $14,150,000 was authorized under Public Law 653. The estimated cost of the total program for water supply and distribution is $9,550,000, of which $2,850,000 was included in the authorization of Public Law 653.

(b) The project will provide a source of water supply by construction of an earthfilled dam and impounding reservoir on the Fena River, supply mains to the boundaries of military installations, pumping stations, water-treatment plant, storage reservoirs and connections of existing sources of water supply with the island distribution system.

(c) The Fena Dam project is for construction of an earth filled, graded, rockfaced dam, 1,050 feet long, 85 feet maximum height and with 30 feet width at top, providing a reservoir with a usable capacity of 5,000 acre-feet of water. The dam will have a concrete spillway with gravity crest, radial gates, discharge tunnel and stilling basin. The discharge tunnel will be used for diversion of river during construction of the dam. An inlet structure, screen house, valve chamber,

and supply pipe are provided to furnish water from various levels of the reservoir to a 7,000,000 gallon per day water treatment plant of the rapid sand filter type. The project includes a pump house, clearwell and pipeline with capacity equal to the rated capacity of the treatment plant.

RASIS OF REQUIREMENT

(a) The existing sources of fresh water for the Navy on Guam are springs at Almagoso and Agana, Maui-type wells (Aceorp and Tumon Maui) and various wells. These existing sources are inadequate to provide for the present population and make no provision for an increase in personnel or expanding industrial facilities. The project is essential to provide for the minimum requirements and interconnection of the various distribution systems will alleviate shortages existing in certain local areas. This over-all program is to replace temporary wartime installations which have become inadequate and are at the end of their useful life, and will provide adequate fresh water for authorized and proposed permanent military facilities, such as ship repair, petroleum storage, communications, hospital, supply department, ordnance and aviation facilities, personnel barracks and family housing.

Mr. TABER. You are asking for $3,000,000, which will make $4,000,000 to get this project going?

Admiral JELLEY. That is for the power system and transmission lines, and so forth.

Mr. TABER. How much of transmission lines do you have there? Admiral JELLEY. As I recall, it is 180 miles of high-tension line. That is set out in the justifications in detail.

Mr. TABER. That seems like an awfully high figure for that amount of stuff; maybe I am wrong.

WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

You have an item for water supply and distribution system. How many people are covered by this? How many people are there in Guam?

Admiral JELLEY. 50,000 at present. During the war there were about 200,000, mostly military personnel, of course. This involves construction of a dam, an earth-filled dam, which is taking us two seasons to construct.

Mr. TABER. Is there not a water system there now?

Admiral JELLEY. The water was previously secured by wells. There was a shallow lens of water above the underlying salt water. That was so depleted during the war when we had 200,000 people on the island, and we used the water up at such a rate, that we were forced to go to surface water; that is, collecting rains during the rainy season and allowing the lens under the island to replenish itself. It will probably be a matter of 10 years for it to replenish itself.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

Mr. MAHON. We will proceed now to your item entitled "Various Locations Outside United States." The prepared justifications will be inserted at this point.

Various locations

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project is for the reactivation, including necessary overhaul and repair, preparation for tow, outfitting, assembly and mooring of floating drydocks now in the inactive status.

BASIS OF REQUIREMENT

The reactivation and placing in service of ships of the reserve fleets requires that floating drydocks be reactivated. The floating drydocks are required to provide docking facilities for docking the reserve fleet ships incident to their preparation for service and to provide drydocking facilities for the repair, scraping, and painting of ships at overseas locations.

BASIS OF ESTIMATES

The work involves the removal of blank flanges from the sea openings, vent pipes, etc., removal of dehumidification equipment, restoration of compartmentation, repair or overhaul of machinery, painting to prevent unnecessary deterioration of hull, provision of outfitting, including spare parts and mooring material, preparation for tow to overseas locations and assembly, and placing in service at the operating sites.

The estimated cost of this work based upon experience is $3,500,000.

Mr. TABER. You have an item for floating drydocks. Do you not have enough of those left from the last war?

Admiral JELLEY. That is for rehabilitating and repairing some of our existing floating drydocks which are laid up in moth balls, and put them back in service.

NAVAL COMMUNICATION STATION AND NAVAL OPERATING BASE, KODIAK, ALASKA

Mr. MAHON. We have now several items for Kodiak, Alaska. We will insert the prepared justification at this point.

This project will provide permanent communication facilities at the Headquarters, Seventeenth Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska.

It is estimated that the total cost of this project will be $13,516,000. Authorization to date, as indicated below, is $2,225,000. The increased authorization for this project is $3,737,500. Future authorizations will be sought in a total amount of $7,553,500.

This project contemplates continuation of the program for which planning was initiated in 1946, and for which initial authorization was contained in Public Law 653, Eightieth Congress.

The project will provide permanent structures as a replacement for inadequate wartime units that are beyond further economical maintenance and which does not provide space suitable for installation of urgently required strategic communication facilities.

The project involves construction at two separately located although functionally integrated locations.

(a) This project contemplates repairs and rehabilitation and partial replacement of the tanker and tender pier, the cargo dock, the marginal pier, the tug dock, miscellaneous landing floats, and dolphins.

BASIS OF REQUIREMENTS

(a) The tanker and tender pier provides the only facility at Kodiak for receiving incoming fuel supplies and for refueling vessels. The cargo dock provides the only available facility for handling incoming cargo. The marginal pier serves the

submarine base.

The present structures were built in 1940-41, are of timber construction, have been subjected to hard and continuous usage, and, with the exception of minor maintenance, no repairs have been made. The fuel and utility service piping on the tanker and tender pier is suspended by brackets from the underside of the pier at elevation 110.5. The high-tide range is to elevation 113.0 and results in complete submersion of the piping and corrosion. It is proposed to construct a new deck on this pier about 4 feet above the present deck whereby the fuel and service piping can be installed at the existing deck level and above high-tide range. This pier and the other piers and docks require renewal and replacement of broken or marine-borer-attacked fender and bearing piles; renewal of caps, stringers, decking, and bull-rails. The dolphins guarding the ends of the piers and docks have been broken and require replacement. A 176-foot section of the cargo dock is unsafe and has been secured.

COMMUNICATION FACILITIES

Mr. TABER. You have an item for Kodiak, Alaska, totaling $2,225,000, for communication facilities. You did not have anything for that in your 1951 estimates, did you?

Admiral JELLEY. No, sir. That project is receiving increasing priority because of world developments. As a matter of fact, that project is on our authorization list also, so that the total cost will be $13,516,000 and we will be up before the Armed Services Committees for an initial authorization of some $12,000,000.

Mr. TABER. What are you going to do there? (Discussion off the record.)

NAVAL MAGAZINE, PORT CHICAGO, CALIF.

Mr. MAHON. If there are no further questions we will proceed to the next item and insert the prepared justifications.

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

(a) This project contemplates corrective construction to rehabilitate protective barricades at 17 railroad sidings used for ammunition shipments located in the tidal area.

(b) It is proposed to restore the barricades at the railroad sidings to an usable condition by driving precast concrete piles and constructing reinforced concrete footings supporting revetment walls.

(c) This project does not require the acquisition of any real estate.

BASIS OF REQUIREMENT

(a) Port Chicago is the main ammunition out-shipment point for the ArmyNavy, and Air Force on the west coast.

(b) The barricaded sidings are required for the transfer of ammunition from railroad cars to ships (or the reverse) with minimum hazard.

(c) Previous experience during the Port Chicago explosion of 1944 indicates that barricades very effectively restrict blast and shock effects during explosions and prevent the detonation of explosives located in the barricades from blasts at very close proximities.

(d) Approximately one-half of the barricaded sidings are either totally useless now because of failures of the barricades or their usefulness is greatly restricted. These failures have occurred in some cases because of rotting of timber members at the ground line and in other instances because of settlement of the filled ground which lays on a tidal flat in this area. Progressive failures can be expected, thus further reducing the usefulness of the naval magazine.

Mr. TABER. This is for rehabilitation of barricaded sidings in tidal area, Port Chicago. Why is that needed?

Admiral JELLEY. Port Chicago is on San Francisco Bay. It is a transshipping point for ammunition. They unload it from freight cars and move it to the ships. For safety, the railroad sidings on which they do the unloading are surrounded by earthen embankments on each side, so that, in case of an explosion, the force of the explosion will go straight up. About half of the embankments there which were built in 1944, were on marshy ground that has settled, and were retained by timber sheet pilings and planks. Those have rotted out, allowing the embankments to collapse and we have to restore those embankments.

FOURTEENTH NAVAL DISTRICT

Mr. MAHON. Next is the project entitled "Fourteenth Naval District." The prepared justifications will be inserted at this point:

The purpose of this project is to complete the installation of communication control links necessary to insure adequate, reliable, and flexible control of communication facilities essential for the conduct of naval operations throughout the Pacific Ocean areas.

For the purpose of operating efficiency, economy of maintenance funds, and operating personnel, Naval Communication Headquarters on Oahu have recently been consolidated and installed in the Administration Building, Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor. This requires an extensive rearrangement of control line and radio