2. These parcels were acquired as the Navy Department's share in the program for the plant expansion of the Ranger Aircraft Engines Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation of Farmingdale, New York, the Navy contractor, under Contracts NOa-59, NOa-60, NOd-1646, and NOa--1059, for the production of airplane engines, and comprised a part of the manufacturing area of approximately 20.75 acres of which the major portion is owned by the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation and smaller parts thereof were owned by the Army and the Defense Plant Corporation. 3. The Navy improved the 5-acre parcel of land, which is located on the opposite side of the railroad tracks to the north of the plant by the construction thereon of a storage building (246' x 40') and a temporary Factory Protection building (55′ x 52′) and the Navy further improved the 0.886 parcel of land, which was a part of Conkling Street passing through the contractor's land, by the construction thereon of a part of an addition (559′ x 197') to the main factory and office building. In addition to the improvements on Navy-owned land, the Navy also constructed other improvements partly on the lands of the contractor, the Defense Plant Corporation and the Army, which include personnel building, a service hangar with mezzanine, addition to apparatus room, addition to equipment room. test cell building, addition to boiler house, supercharger laboratory on roof of test cell building, addition to manufacturing area and other miscellaneous alterations and installations. All of these improvements were included in the plant expansion program under Navy Contracts NOa-59, NOa-60, NOd-1646 and NOa-1059 and were constructed by the Navy at an approximate cost of $3,906,744.75. The Army and the Defense Plant Corporation also expended various sums of money in the construction of other improvements to the plant property in the expansion program, which overlap the boundary lines of their respective lands within the manufacturing area. 4. The Navy contracts with the Ranger Aircraft Engines Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation have terminated, the Army has declared its property interest in the plant as surplus to War Assets Administration, and the Navy-owned land, buildings, building improvements and installations have been determined to be in excess of the needs of the Navy Department. 5. The approval of the Committee is respectfully requested for the declaration of the Navy's property interests in this plant as surplus to the War Assets Administration. The CHAIRMAN. This one is located on Long Island. Mr. DUDLEY. Yes, sir. Disposal No. 141 is concerned with the Ranger Aircraft Engines Division of the Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. It is the case of an industrial plant which was partially owned by the Fairchild people. We expanded it with our money during the war. The expansion is no longer necessary to our use and it is just a matter of declaring it surplus to the War Assets Administration for proper disposition. The CHAIRMAN. What is the value of that? Mr. DUDLEY. We added $3,900,000 of improvements to lands that cost $7,000 plus lands that were owned by the Ranger Aircraft Engines Division. The CHAIRMAN. And you are going to declare surplus the land and the buildings? Mr. DUDLEY. We would declare surplus the land and the buildings, yes. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it may be done. We will take up disposal No. 142. (Report of Navy Department on disposal No. 142 is as follows:) SUBMITTED BY NAVY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS, REAL ESTATE DIVISION Disposal No. 142 1. On November 4, 1942, the Navy Department acquired by the institution of condemnation proceedings at a cost of $1,181,240 the fee simple title to a tract of approximately 2,597 acres of land, with improvements thereon, together with certain utility and railroad easements situate in Romulus, Seneca County, New York. 2. This property was acquired by the Navy for the establishment of the U. S. Naval Training Center, Sampson, New York and was improved by the Navy with complete facilities for training, housing and subsistence of Naval personnel at an approximate cost of $40,514,503.00. 3. The building improvements on the property are largely of wood frame construction on concrete or masonry foundation and include Administration buildings, receiving buildings, telephone, bank and post office buildings, muster buildings, firehouses, motor repair and storage buildings, garages, gas stations, Diesel locomotive house, barracks, officers' quarters, messhalls, reception centers, Ship's Service store buildings, auditoriums, chapels, guardhouses, athletic field houses, maintenance buildings, drill halls, school buildings, storage buildings, storehouses, pumphouses, target ranges, laundries, bakeries, utility shops, central heating plant, incinerators, dispensaries, laboratories, sewage treatment plant, electric substation, pumping station, recreation buildings, swimming pools, reservoir, commissary buildings, low-cost civilian housing unit and utility buildings. 4. The facilities on the property include a complete sewerage system with modern disposal plant, complete water system, electrical system, and a railroad spur line. 5. It has been determined that all of this training center except the units with buildings and improvements thereon, known as the hospital or "Q" area containing approximately 466 acres of land and the Callaghan or "C" area containing approximately 84.2 acres of land, respectively, which are to be retained by the Navy under the cognizance of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, will on 30 June 1946 become excess to the needs of the Navy. 6. In addition there has already been transferred to Federal Public Housing Authority and War Assets Administration approximately 127 building structures, being administration buildings, barracks, personnel buildings, messhalls, drillhalls, Ship's Service store, and utility buildings in the "D," "E," "F," and "G” areas which are to be removed from the property. 7. Approval of the Committee is respectfully requested for the declaration of this property, with the exception of the units to be retained by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, as surplus to the War Assets Administration with the reservation that when the property is disposed of the sale shall be made on the basis that the purchaser will enter into an agreement to rent back to the Navy at stipulated rentals certain designated quarters, storage space, utilities and services required by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to provide logistical support to the Naval Hospital, Sampson. The CHAIRMAN. What do you have to say with regard to Disposal No. 142, Mr. Dudley? This one is in Romulus, N. Y. Mr. DUDLEY. Yes, sir. This concerns the Naval Training Center at Sampson, N. Y., which consists of approximately 2,600 acres of land which we acquired at a cost of $1,181,000, but on which we spent $40,514,000. This, of course, is a complete station. Now, I understand that the State of New York is interested in adapting it to educational purposes similar to the proposition that the four Western States mentioned by Senator Morse are interested in adapting, at Farragut, Idaho. The Navy proposes to declare it surplus to the War Assets Administration as of the 1st of July and let the War Assets Administration deal with the State of New York in disposing of this property. The CHAIRMAN. What do you have to say to that, Senator Morse? Senator MORSE. There is this difference between the two cases, Mr. Chairman: It was brought out at a hearing on this the other day. This is a case where the Governor of New York has already taken steps to deal with the War Assets Administration. The CHAIRMAN. Yes. Senator MORSE. In other words, they are already organized and ready to do business in New York, whereas in our problem, with reference to Farragut, they have not as yet been organized or prepared. We have no objection to this one. The CHAIRMAN. Very well; without objection, it may be done. Mr. DUDLEY. Disposal No. 143 concerns a small parcel of land of 12 and a fraction acres. The CHAIRMAN. What has it been used for? Mr. DUDLEY. It has been used as an aircraft warning station, in connection with the naval air station at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was acquired at a cost of $184, and we constructed minor improvements on it, at a cost of about $60,000. Now, this is no longer required for naval purposes, and we propose to declare it surplus to the War Assets Administration and let the War Assets Administration make disposition of the property. The CHAIRMAN. Any objection? Senator MORSE. No, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Very well; without objection, it may be done. (Report of Navy Department on disposal No. 143 is as follows:) SUBMITTED BY NAVY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS REAL ESTATE DIVISION Disposal No. 143 1. The Aircraft Warning Station used in connection with U. S. Naval Air Station, Daytona Beach, Florida, and located in Volusia County in the NW of section 2, township 16 south, range 32 east, and the NE1⁄4 of section 3, township 16 south, range 32 east, consisting of 12.415 acres, was taken by condemnation proceedings in March 1945 at a cost of $183.98. The property was a cut over pine area when taken by the Navy. 2. The Navy improved the property by placing thereon a transmitter building, 20' x 60', a power house, 20' x 31', a sentry house, 11' x 11', all with mineral surface siding, water and sanitary systems, a 9,400-gallon fuel-oil tank, a roadway, earthwork and drainage structures, and by clearing and fencing, at a total cost of $60,145.58, exclusive of the cost of the fuel oil tank. 3. The Navy Department has no further use for this property, and it is respectfully requested that approval be granted to declare it surplus to the War Assets Administration. The CHAIRMAN. The next one is disposal No. 144, at Corvallis, Oreg. (Report of the Navy Department on Disposal No. 144 is as follows:) SUBMITTED BY NAVY DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS REAL ESTATE DIVISION Disposal No. 144 1. On 24 April 1945, the Navy Department acquired by transfer from the War Department the hospital and reservoir area at Camp Adair near Corvallis, in Benton County, Oregon. The property is known as U. S. Naval Hospital, Corvallis, and comprises 451.83 acres, more or less. 2. The total cost to the War Department of the acquisition and improvements to this property amounted to approximately $3,357,000.00. The improvements include office buildings, fire station, garage, boiler room, mess halls, morgue, storehouses, X-ray building, utility and maintenance shops, wards, barracks and quarters. There are a total of 167 buildings, most of which have concrete foundations, wood floors, wood walls, and mastic shingles. They are considered suitable for conversion to public housing. 3. The hospital will be disestablished 31 May 1946, and it has been determined that it is now surplus to the needs of the Navy. 4. Approval of the committee is respectfully requested for the declaration of this property as surplus to the War Assets Administration. Mr. DUDLEY. Disposal No. 144 concerns a complete installation on 451 acres of land. The CHAIRMAN. What is it used for? Mr. DUDLEY. It was used as a hospital. It was known as the Camp Adair Hospital. We improved that property for hospital purposes and erected temporary buildings at a cost of $3,357,000. I do not know whether the State is interested in that institution. The CHAIRMAN. Have you heard about that one, Senator? Senator MORSE. I think it is interested only in the equipment. I think we will take our chances on priority rights once it is declared surplus. Mr. DUDLEY. Mr. Chairman, we have asked the Veterans' Administration whether they have any need for this property, and they tell us that they do not have, so we can properly declare it surplus. The CHAIRMAN. All right; without objection, that may be done. The CHAIRMAN. The next disposal is No. 145. (Report of Navy Department on disposal No. 145 is as follows:) SUBMITTED BY NAVY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS, REAL ESTATE DIVISION Disposal No. 145 1. The Navy Department, for use in naval aviation training and operations, acquired ownership of the aviation facilities listed below. 2. Inasmuch as these facilities are excess to the postwar needs of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Bureau of Aeronautics now propose disposition to relieve the Navy Department of expense and obligation of maintenance and security. 3. It is respectfully requested that the Navy Department be authorized to de clare the facilities named below surplus to the War Assets Administration for disposition in accordance with surplus property regulations. Where facilities are suitable for postwar use as civil airfields, War Assets Administration will be requested to make disposition subject to restrictions that they be used and maintained in serviceable condition as public airfields; that the transferee prevent development, use, and alteration which would interfere with efficient operation thereof; that the Government have the right to use, in common with others; and that in the event of emergency declared by Congress or the President the Government should have the right to the full and unrestricted use and control. |