Three of the old barracks, designed to house 84 people, are scheduled to be demolished, one to provide ground space for construction of an addition to the communication center and the others because of their poor structural condition. This item is necessary to reduce the severe overcrowding of facilities and to provide reasonable, decent living quarters for enlisted personnel assigned to this important communication station. Because of the essentiality of their work and their irregular hours of duty, it is important that the enlisted personnel reside on-station.

The second line item is for a bachelor officers' quarters with mess at the estimated cost of $278,000. Of the 96 officers assigned to or supported by the station, 20 require bachelor quarters and messing facilities. At present, an old quonset hut is being used to house four officers, and two family units to house six officers. Another quonset hut serves as a makeshift officers' mess. The other bachelor officers must arrange for private housing off-station, from 17 to 35 miles distant. This item is necessary to provide sufficient and decent living spaces for bachelor officers and communication watch officers assigned to this vital activity, remotely located with respect to other naval activities and Government housing on Oahu.

The nearest Navy BOQ is at the Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, approximately 17 miles (1 hour) away and is fully utilized as are those at Army and Air Force installations on Oahu.

SECURITY GROUP STATIONS

The second category in this class is security group stations. It consists of four line items at three locations for a total of $854,000.

NAVAL SECURITY STATION, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The first project is at the Naval Security Station, District of Columbia. It consists of a single line item for construction of a 78-man Marine barracks at the estimated cost of $231,000. The existing Marine barracks is in poor structural condition and beyond economical repair. The second floor has been condemned and vacated. Temporary repairs of the first floor have been made to permit its interim use. As these Marine guards are required to live on-station, a section of the mess hall is being used temporarily for berthing space. The Marine detachment is responsible for maintaining security of this highly sensitive activity.

NAVAL SECURITY GROUP ACTIVITY, SKAGGS ISLAND,

CALIF.

The next project is at the Naval Security Group Activity, Skaggs Island, Calif., for construction of a station road at the estimated cost of $341,000. This activity is remotely located north of the Naval Shipyard, Mare Island. Mare Island is now 26 miles distant by road. The road traverses a circuitous route through the swampy area at the mouth of Napa Valley and enters the activity at the north side of Skaggs Island. An off-station access road is to be built to connect to the south side of the activity. This item will provide an

on-station road through the south end of the activity to lead onto the new access road. This will provide a direct route to Mare Island, reducing the distance to 7 miles. It will then permit a planned economy move, the consolidation of the facilities maintenance and logistics function of the security activity and the naval shipyard.

NAVAL SECURITY GROUP ACTIVITY, WINTER HARBOR,

MAINE

The final project for this class is at the Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor, Maine. It includes two line items for the total amount of $282,000.

The first item is for a messhall at the estimated cost of $224,000. The existing messhall consists of a wood frame shed with three quonset hut appendages. This facility is substandard in several respects. It has a capacity for feeding 4 officers and 60 enlisted men, whereas a capacity for 4 officers and 181 men is required; and the structures are uninsulated, rusted, leak excessively, and are unsanitary. The proposed item will provide a replacement messhall with a 104-man seating capacity.

The second line item is for construction of a sewage treatment plant at the estimated cost of $58,000. In recent years the personnel baseload has been increased to meet increased national cryptological functions. This has resulted in overloading the capacity of the existing septic tank system, causing untreated sewage to flow into Arey Cove, a part of Acadia National Park and a lobster fishing area. Park authorities require correction of this condition. The proposed line item will provide a package type sewage treatment plant with capacity to take care of the planned loading.

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH FACILITIES

The next facilities class is the Office of Naval Research Facilities. It consists of four line items at two locations in the United States for a total amount of $7,280,000. Both projects are in program VI for support of research and development. The stations involved are engaged in essential scientific research and development in the physical sciences and related fields, directed toward improving materials, equipment, techniques, and systems for the Navy.

NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The first project is at the Naval Research Laboratory, District of Columbia. It includes three line items for a total of $6,730,000. This research laboratory has, through the years, developed a very high degree of technical competence which can only be maintained by providing modern research tools.

The first line item is for a sector focusing cyclotron building at the estimated cost of $2,832,000. This structure will house a new cyclotron which is being procured separately. This cyclotron will be utilized in fields not now covered or planned to be covered by other similar facilities in the scientific community. It will enable research

to be conducted in such fields as: the study of nuclei structure, investigation of forces between nuclear particles, production of radioisotopes, and the simulation of high energy radiation such as encountered in outer space. The cyclotron's principal function will be the furthering of basic research in nuclear physics.

The proposed facility represents a powerful and versatile establishment for the study of nuclear physics in an important energy region which has not been adequately investigated, and for research in solid state physics. It is a necessary tool for attacking many applied problems. The NRL plans to use this facility a minimum of 80 hours per week in order to keep up with the anticipated amount of research.

The second line item is an operations and technical services building at the estimated cost of $3,484,000. This structure will replace the present substandard building and will provide space for relocation of interrelated functions now scattered in 13 separate buildings. The vacated spaces will be reverted to other important research functions. The functions to be combined in the new building include, among others, photographic technology, graphic arts, printing and reproduction, supply control, and general administration. Photographic technology and graphic arts are major elements in the research work at the NOL and will occupy a substantial portion of the new space.

The third item is for an environmental control central plant at the estimated cost of $414,000. It will consist of a central plant with initial capacity of 950 tons, and chilled water distribution lines for providing air conditioning and controlled humidity in the general purpose laboratory, authorized and funded last year, and the operations and technical services building included in this program. Provision of a central plant will make unnecessary the installation of an individual system in each of the buildings at greater first cost and higher operation and maintenance expense. An existing building will be altered as the central plant. It will have sufficient space to increase the plant capacity in conformance with long-range plans for modernization of the NRL.

NAVAL TRAINING DEVICE CENTER, MITCHEL FIELD, NEW YORK

The last project in this class is at the new location of the Naval Training Device Center, Federal Center, Mitchel Field, New York, for relocation of facilities from the present sites at the estimated cost of $550,000. The Center's functions are now carred out at four locations: Garden City, Port Washington, and Mineola on Long Island, and Mechanicsburg, Pa. The Naval Training Device Center will be relocated from 3 of these locations and consolidated into 16 structures in the Federal center at the former Mitchel Air Force Base. The facility at Garden City will be retained because of its close proximity to the Federal center. The General Services Administration, which operates the Federal center, proposes to renovate the general purpose structures assigned to the Navy and to provide supporting utilities at a cost to GSA of $1,950,000. The Navy, by means of this project, proposes to make specialized renovations to meet our requirements and to install the research equipment moved from the present locations.

This move will result in improved efficiency of operations and will relieve current crowded conditions. Other benefits will include an estimated reduction of $405,000 in annual operation and maintenance costs; a potential one-time return to the Government of approximately $1.3 million in the sale of the high-value property at Port Washington and Mineola; and cancellation of line items for NTDC, Port Washington, including one authorized in fiscal year 1963 for $265,000 and two planned for future authorization for $502,000.

YARDS AND DOCKS FACILITIES

The final facilities class is yards and docks facilities. The Bureau of Yards and Docks is responsible for fulfilling the Navy's requirements in the broad field of civil engineering at all Naval shore activities. There are four projects in this class consisting of eight line items totaling $4,620,000. The first three of these projects are in program VII for general support and the final project is in program III in support of general purpose forces.

NAVY PUBLIC WORKS CENTER, NEWPORT, R.I.

The first project, at the Navy Public Works Center, Newport, R.I., is made up of two line items totaling $965,000. The Navy Public Works Centers provide public works, public utilities, transportation, and engineering services for the operating forces and shore activities in surrounding Navy complexes.

The first line item is for an electrical distribution system at the estimated cost of $65,000. The existing circuits now have connected loads that exceed the capacities of the substation transformers. This item will provide a third 2,400-volt electrical circuit to serve the Coddington Cove area of the Naval station. The new circuit will provide power to the public works center and Naval Supply Depot administrative spaces, two groups of Navy housing, and other structures in the

area.

The second item is for a steam distribution system, estimated to cost $900,000. This item will enable the Coddington Cove heating plant to provide steam for new construction authorized or proposed for the Officer Candidate School, the Naval station and the Naval War College, and will permit interconnection with the Coasters Island plant. This will enable one of the two plants to be shut down for 7 months of the year at an annual saving of $90,000 in operating costs. System reliability and flexibility will also be improved by the cross connection. The Coasters Harbor plant will be unable to handle the increased heating load without this item.

NAVY PUBLIC WORKS CENTER, NORFOLK, VA.

The next project is at the Navy Public Works Center, Norfolk, Va. It is for a salvage fuel boiler plant, at the estimated cost of $1,658,000. This project will include construction of a 360-ton trash and refuse incinerator in conjunction with a previously authorized steam boiler plant. Heat produced by the incineration of this waste material will be used to generate steam in the boiler plant, thus materially reducing the cost of fuel and of trash disposal.

Annual operating costs to supply essential steam to the waterfront and to perform trash disposal operations, will be reduced an estimated $325,000 annually, by using the waste heat boiler plant concept as compared to a combination of conventional coal-fired plant for steam production and sanitary fill trash disposal.

Aside from the monetary savings this plant will afford, it is necessary that an alternate means of trash disposal be developed prior to July 1965, when it is anticipated that the area now used for sanitary fill will be exhausted. The estimated cost to acquire new land for sanitary fill trash disposal would approach $1 million and the annual cost of the disposal operation would exceed $2,500,000, an annual increase exceeding the cost of this project.

NAVY PUBLIC WORKS CENTER, PEARL HARBOR,

OAHU, HAWAII

The third project is at the Navy Public Works Center, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, consisting of three line items totaling $507,000. As result of DOD land study in March 1960, Navy was directed to: (a) declare excess to GSA the remaining 15 acres of Damon tract; and (b) relocate from Damon tract the transportation center and the administration annex for 14th Naval District.

The first item, at the estimated cost of $130,000, is for the relocation of vehicle maintenance facilities to the naval shipyard. This is the major automotive, construction, and heavy equipment maintenance facility for Navy activities on Oahu Island. The relocation is made necessary by the disposal of former Navy property, known as the Damon tract, to the city and county of Honolulu for expansion of Honolulu International Airport to accommodate commercial jet aircraft operations. The relocation will utilize 50,000 square feet of existing shipyard structures and a new structure of 7,680 square feet. Disposal of the property, which is now in process, has necessitated this interim relocation to the proposed site on a makeshift basis. This item will provide an adequate usable facility at a much lower cost than new construction, which is estimated to cost $578,000.

The second line item is for conversion of structures to administration buildings at the estimated cost of $206,000. As in the case of the previous item, this is required because of the transfer of Damon tract land for expansion of the Honolulu International Airport. Spaces occupied by the Director, Pacific Division, Bureau of Yards and Docks; resident officer-in-charge of construction, Pearl Harbor; Military Sea Transportation Service office; branch Hydrographic Office; Navy Audit Office; and the Naval Training Device Center, were lost to use by the Navy by the disposal action. Satisfactory alternate space can be made available by rehabilitation and conversion of existing structures except in the case of the resident officer in charge of construction, Pearl Harbor. This activity will be housed in a new semipermanent structure included in this item.

The final line item is for the first increment of an "Extension of sewer system" at the estimated cost of $171,000. It represents, in accordance with Executive Order 10014, the Navy's cooperation with the city and county of Honolulu, in efforts to control pollution of the harbor. The city and county have let a contract for construction of a sewage dis

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