A second increase of $189,000 in the estimated cost of a line item for a salvage fuel boiler plant at the Navy Public Works Center, Norfolk, Va. Chairman RUSSELL. I didn't understand that Corpus Christi item? What is it for? Admiral PRESSEY. An increase for an additional bombing target at Corpus Christi. Chairman RUSSELL. Do you need more land? Is that what is involved there? Admiral PRESSEY. We are leasing the land, and building the target facilities. We had originally anticipated that an Air Force target would be made available for us in this locality at Matogorda. The Air Force found they were unable to make time available on their target for us, and we had to acquire another one, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. How many do you have now? Admiral PRESSEY. This will give us two. We had originally adequate targets which had to be surrendered to the State for public land as a national seashore. Chairman RUSSELL. Is that one of those islands there? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir, Padre Island. Chairman RUSSELL. Was any compensation paid for that or do you know? Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir, no compensation was paid. Third, an increase of $380,000 in the estimated cost of a classified line item in section 202 of the bill for the Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, N.H. If the Chair so desires we shall discuss these adjustments in greater detail on each affected line item during the presentation of our complete program. That completes my statement. Senator SALTONSTALL. Would the Senator yield for clarification? Chairman RUSSELL. Yes. Senator SALTONSTALL. Admiral, if I may clarify this, before the chairman asks a question, I understood there is a total increase of $633,000 in these three items. From what you have stated, as I got it, was $54,000 or $55,000 for Texas, $189,000 for Norfolk, Va., and $280,000 was it, for Portsmouth, N.H.? Admiral PRESSEY. $380,000. Senator SALTONSTALL. But that wouldn't make up into $633,000; maybe I didn't hear you rightly. Admiral PRESSEY. $380,000 at Portsmouth, N.H. Sennator SALTONSTALL. Yes. Admiral PRESSEY. $64,000 at Corpus Christi, and $189,000 for Norfolk, Va. Senator SALTONSTALL. That adds up to $633,000. Just one other question and I appreciate the chairman's courtesy. The House cut, as Mr. Nease said, your budget by $53.9 million and you are asking reclamas of $39.4 million, is that right? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. You are asking this committee for $633,000 in three items, plus $39.4 million of reclamas, is that correct? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; that is essentially correct. Senator SALTONSTALL. Then the $87,000 deficiency request is in the House bill, so that there is nothing there, no new authorization required? Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that. Chairman RUSSELL. Admiral, is there any new installation requested in any of the naval items? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; we have one new installation. Admiral PRESSEY. That is a classified item, sir. It is on page 28 of book 3. Chairman RUSSELL. Is that in the continental United States? Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. Are any projects or operational facilities in the Navy's program in jeopardy because of the nature of our negotiations for base sites with any foreign country? Admiral PRESSEY. There are none, sir. At the time the hearings were started, in fact at the time your hearings were started there were still some doubts, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. You didn't have any other than at Rota, then? Admiral PRESSEY. I would not consider that in jeopardy. Chairman RUSSELL. How about AUTEC? Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir. We have complete construction authority there, sir, and we expect signature of the agreement very shortly. Chairman RUSSELL. Now, do these increases that you suggest involve a new activity or do they represent cost adjustments? Admiral PRESSEY. They are all three adjustments to original items, sir, increases in price on the basis of final engineering studies. Chairman RUSSELL. Have engineering studies been completed on all the items that you have before us? Admiral CORRADI. Yes, sir. We have complete the preliminary engineering and the revised estimate is based on this engineering study. Chairman RUSSELL. Have you completed the study on others aside from those where you found you needed more money? Admiral CORRADI. All of the items that are in the bill have now had preliminary enginering studies, yes, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. I wish you would prepare and submit for use of the committee, Admiral, a list of the line items that were deleted in the other body by order of priority that the Navy attaches to them? Admiral PRESSEY. I will be pleased to do that, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. And you might also put on asterisk on any of those that could safely be carried over to next year without weakening fleet readiness. Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Saltonstall, anything further before we go into details here? Senator SALTONSTALL. No, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Simth? Senator SMITH. No. Senator SALTONSTALL. I have four general questions I would like to ask at this time. Chairman RUSSELL. Very well. Senator SALTONSTALL. Admiral, we have a very considerable problem, as you know, each year in our appropriation bill, which has just gone through the Senate and is now in conference, as to the amount of repair work that is to be done in the Navy shipyards as opposed to the private shipyards. The Senate put it through at 35 percent this year which is the same language as last year. Now, my question is this: We in Boston are interested in the Boston Navy Yard and we receive a very large amount of questions and there are many doubts concerning the future of that yard. It is my understanding there is only one drydock in the main navy yard in Boston today where a destroyer fitted with the most modern sonar equipment can be put into drydock. My question is, are there any plans for modernizing the drydocks in the navy yards, not only in Boston, but elsewhere? It is also my understanding that several of the piers at the Boston Navy Yard have wooden pilings and they are deteriorating very fast. Are there any plans being made or is consideration being given to modernizing some of our navy yards? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. The Bureau of Ships former Chief, Rear Admiral James, completed a very extensive study, sir, of the need for modernization of all of our naval shipyards. The program encompasses a general modernization of all 11 naval shipyards. It includes waterfront facilities, modern machinery, modern shops, deepening of drydocks, better utilities for working on larger and deeper ships and doing it in a more efficient and cheaper way, sir. Boston is included in this program. Senator SALTONSTALL. Now, along those lines, how about your electrical or utilities distribution system? Again I understand that there is plenty of current available in our Boston Navy Yard, but that the distribution system within the yard is antiquated. Do you know anything about that? Is that included in the plans for modernization? Admiral PRESSEY. That is, sir. Utilities are major items in the modernization program. Captain Dawson, from the Bureau of Ships, may have information on Boston utilities specifically. Captain? Senator SALTONSTALL. Thank you, Captain. Captain DAWSON. I am Captain Dawson, Bureau of Ships. We do have in future year programs, starting in fiscal year 1965, items for facilities improvement in the Boston Naval Shipyard, sir, and in many others. We have items in this year's program for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Mare Island Shipyard, for instance. We have a long-range program for this particular item in all our shipyards. Senator SALTONSTALL. And those plans are being developed so that there will be new authorization requested next year? Captain DAWSON. Yes, sir; we do have new authorization to be requested next year specifically for utilities distribution in the Boston Naval Shipyard. Senator SALTONSTALL. And all of the other yards? 23-901-63-19 Those were the general questions that I appreciate being allowed to ask. Chairman RUSSELL. You didn't refer to the item you have in this year's bill for Boston for the utilities distribution, Captain. Captain DAWSON. Mr. Chairman, that is a steam item. It is to improve the steamplant. It affects utilities very greatly. Chairman RUSSELL. Isn't that a distribution system? Captain DAWSON. Yes, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. What would you call a steamplant in all of its affixes? Captain DAWSON. You are absolutely correct, sir. It is part of a utilities distribution system. It is confined to a portion of the power. plant, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. Admiral, please give the committee some details of the projects in your program, starting with Bureau of Ships facilities. INSIDE THE UNITED STATES SHIPYARD FACILITIES Admiral PRESSEY. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the first of the 10 facilities classes in the Navy's fiscal year 1964 program, is Bureau of Ships facilities. This class consists of 46 line items at 24 locations for a total of $38,608,000, including 15 classified line items at 7 locations for $14,238,000. The items are in five groups: three inside the United States (shipyard facilities, fleet support facilities, and R. & D. facilities); one overseas; and one classified. These facilities are needed for the construction, overhaul, and repair of our modern surface ships and submarines; improvement of fleet support activities; modernization of oceanographic research; test and evaluation of specialized equipment; and personnel support. There are 23 line items at 11 locations in the first group-naval shipyards for a total of $18,955,000. One of these items, for $2,900,000, is classified. All but two of the line items are included in functional program III, for support of general purpose forces. The mission of naval shipyards, in general, is to provide logistic support for assigned ships of the fleet and service craft, and to perform work in connection with the overhaul and, in some cases, the construction of these ships and craft. NAVAL SHIPYARD, BOSTON, MASS. The first propect is at the Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass. It consists of two line items for a total of $169,000. The first item is for a collimation facility at the estimated cost of $59,000. Collimation involves the alinement and calibration of ships' optical and electronic control apparatus. The arming of an increasing number of modern ships with guided-missile batteries, together with increased sophistication of the missile guidance systems, have created a new requirement for an efficient and unlimited means of calibrating and alining these systems. Existing collimating facilities at this shipyard are limited to temporary facilities which may only be used while ships are moored to piers. During the initial alinement and calibration of missile systems it is imperative that the ship be in a stationary position. The proposed line item will provide a collimation facility at the South Boston annex, so located as to permit calibration concurrently with drydocking operations and so situated as to permit simultaneous calibration of both fore and aft missile batteries on ships so equipped. Without this facility, collimation procedures on newly delivered ships and ships undergoing overhaul will be lengthier and less accurate, and may result in delays in meeting ships' readiness for sea. The second line item is for modification of the steam distribution system at the estimated cost of $110,000. The main steam system in the powerplant is the basic facility serving the shipyard steam distribution system. It provides steam and heat to all buildings, piers, and drydocks, as well as to ships undergoing overhaul. The lack of sectionalizing valves imperils the safe and continuous operation of the powerplant. Should a break in the main steam line occur, it would be necessary to shut down the entire powerplant as all boilers feed into the same main. Additionally, the undersized steam mains serving the topping turbine prevent its operation at design capacity. This necessitates the use of the less-efficient low-pressure turbines, resulting in unnecessary operating costs of approximately $30,000 annually. This item will provide for the installation of a loop in the main steam line in the steamplant and the provision of sectionalizing valves for isolating the various sections of the system for maintenance and repair. Chairman RUSSELL. Give us a little clearer idea, as laymen, than is set forth in the budget justification of what is a collimation facility. Admiral PRESSEY. A collimation tower is a tower which is designed to provide equipment by which a ship may line up and adjust all of its fire control and radar equipment to a single point of reference, so that the radars are all bore sighted, as you may be familiar with that term, sir, on a specific point. Chairman RUSSELL. Yes, sir; I just don't know that I am too familiar with the word "collimation." I know what you are talking about, I hadn't looked that up in the dictionary. It is in the Boston Navy Yard and I thought my colleague here would be familiar with it. [Laughter.] Senator SALTONSTALL. Mr. Chairman, I just say, Admiral, I have been taking so much time looking up the use of the Senator's word, euphoria, I haven't had time to do anything else. [Laughter.] Chairman RUSSELL. I used it twice, Admiral, and I have been accused of posing as a Harvard man and I shan't use it any more. [Laughter.] Chairman RUSSELL. Please tell us what you propose at Bremerton, Admiral. NAVAL SHIPYARD, BREMERTON, WASH. Admiral PRESSEY. The second project is at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. It consists of three line items for a total of $1,902,000. One of these items, POLARIS Equipment Overhaul Building for $718,000, is in program I for support of Strategic Retaliatory Forces, while the remaining two are in program III for support |