Defense General Supply Center, Richmond, Va. (pp. 55-58) The continuing mission of the Defense General Supply Center is to perform supply management functions for military general-supply items which include: materiel handling, laundry, drycleaning, refrigeration, ventilation, and foodservices equipment; office supplies and equipment; photographic supplies, and hand tools. In 1962 the accounting responsibilities for civil defense supplies were assigned to DGSC as an additional major mission. At the end of the third quarter fiscal year 1963 DGSC was responsible for the supply management of 46,000 items having an annual sales rate of $125 million. Beginning with the current quarter additional commodity classes will be assigned to DGSC for central management. Items comprising these classes will be added progressively between now and January 1, 1964, until a total of 129,000 items will be centrally managed by this center. The first project item at DGSC is to provide for air conditioning administration building No. 34 at a cost of $179,000. This permanent building houses 275 top management personnel. During summer months the heat and humidity experienced in the Richmond area adversely affect the efficiency of the personnel, and the use of window air-conditioning units in building No. 34 is not considered a practicable or economical means of providing satisfactory environmental conditions. This building meets Department of Defense eligibility criteria for the requested treatment. Preliminary plans and cost estimates were provided by the Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District. Final plans and specifications are scheduled for completion in October by the firm of John A. Hoffman, 424 W. 21st Street, Norfolk, Va. The second project item is to upgrade 21,000 square feet of former warehouse area to permanent administrative space at a cost of $130,000. The area is typical high-overhead, windowless warehouse space; and the upgrading will include installation of drywall partitions, asphalt floor tile, adequate lighting, and air conditioning. The completed facility is required to provide permanent space for a document duplicating and reproduction facility which processes thousands of bid invitations and contracts monthly. The heat and humidity of summer months adversely affects the paper, stencils, and chemicals used in this processing effort. Approximately 8,000 square feet of the area to be upgraded will provide space for the personnel who will be required in connection with managing the additional items referenced above. Preliminary plans and cost data were provided by the Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District. Final plans and specifications are scheduled for completion in October by the firm of McIlroy & Parris, 3202 W. Cary Street, Richmond, Va. The third item represents a proposed $975,000 project to convert additional storage space to administrative space. At the time this item was included in the fiscal year 1964 program studies indicated that economies would be realized by relocating certain single manager operations to the Richmond center. However, after further review subsequent to the original submission, it was decided that the scope of these single manager relocations should be reduced in order to avoid impairment of supply effectiveness in the area of electronics materiel. As a consequence the additional administrative space as originally proposed is not required at DGSC at this time, and the item to convert warehousing for this purpose may be withdrawn from the present bill. SUMMARY On the basis of the foregoing, the total request for the Defense Supply Agency is revised from the $2,716,000 shown on pages 1 and 42 of volume I of the Project Justification Books to $1,891,000. Chairman RUSSELL. We will proceed with the Defense Atomic Support Agency, Mr. Sheridan. Mr. SHERIDAN. Colonel Tyler has a short statement to make regarding the DASA program. DEFENSE ATOMIC SUPPORT AGENCY STATEMENT OF COL. MAX C. TYLER, U.S. ARMY, DEFENSE ATOMIC SUPPORT AGENCY Colonel TYLER. Mr. Chairman, the Defense Atomic Support Agency program consists of projects in three areas. We are requesting authorization for $1,200,000 to provide space in which to install a positive ion accelerator at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, Md. This instrument will assist in determining the effects of radiation from atomic weapons, and from other sources, on animal tissue. We are requesting authorization for $20 million for dredging and related work at a classified location. We can discuss the salient features of this work in unclassified session, but detailed examination of the project will require a classified session. We are requesting authorization for $661,000 for seven small administrative projects at DASA installations. Our total program is thus $21,861,000. Chairman RUSSELL. What is the first unclassified project? Chairman RUSSELL. What page is that on? Colonel TYLER. That is on pages 12 to 17, and is at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, N. Mex. The first of these on page 13 is designed to equalize the electric loads and distribution system by transferring loads from an overloaded substation to one where there is excess capacity. The second project which is on page 14 is for the installation of evaporative cooling in all of one barracks and a portion of one other barracks, all at a cost of $125,000. The third project at Sandia Base which appears on page 15 proposes the replacement of 44 wornout window coolers with 8 more efficient roof-mounted coolers. This building is used for administrative space and the cost of the project will be $60,000. Chairman RUSSELL. I note here you say these window coolers only last 7 years. Colonel TYLER. In that climate, sir, that is correct. Chairman RUSSELL. What is the life expectancy of this new plant that you are planning in there? Colonel TYLER. It is approximately 20 years, sir. They have copper rotors and copper tanks and are given about a 20-year life expectancy. Chairman RUSSELL. Go ahead. Colonel TYLER. The last project at Sandia Base, sir, appears on page 16 of your book, and proposes the construction of a new post office at a cost of $125,000. The present post office occupies a portion of a warehouse that would normally be used for the storage of food. The Post Office Department has stated that the area is entitled to a class I post office and that the present facility is hard to secure, and otherwise inadequate. Chairman RUSSELL. Does that conclude Sandia? Colonel TYLER. That concludes Sandia Base, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. You have some small items here for air conditioning of barracks at Texas, Tennessee, and Louisiana, that the House eliminated. Colonel TYLER. That is correct, sir. 23-901-63-28 Chairman RUSSELL. Is there any reason why they should be restored? Colonel TYLER. Sir, the elimination of those items was apparently based on the fact that the barracks at the nearby bases of the military departments were in many cases not air conditioned. Our situation is slightly different from the situation at an adjacent Army or Navy or Air Force base in that our military detachments are purely guard detachments. Their business is guard duty, and they are continually subject to being on a guard relief. This means that a great many of them sleep during the daytime. These bases are in areas where the air conditioning of barracks is authorized by Army regulations. Chairman RUSSELL. To what branch of the service do these guardsmen belong? Colonel TYLER. They belong to all three services, sir. We are a joint organization. Chairman RUSSELL. This is one of the Defense Agencies and you draft from all three organizations? Colonel TYLER. Yes, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. Any further questions of these witnesses? If not, we will go into executive session and consider the secret items. (Whereupon, at 12:15 p.m., the committee proceeded in executive session.) MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION—1964 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1963 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to recess, at 10 a.m., in room 212, Old Senate Office Building. Present: Senators Russell (chairman), Symington, Byrd of West Virginia, Young, Inouye, Saltonstall, and Smith. Also present: Harry L. Wingate, Jr., chief clerk; and Gordon A. Nease, of the committee staff. Chairman RUSSELL. This morning the committee is pursuing its hearings on the military construction bill. We will hear witnesses discuss the requirements of the Reserve Forces, and we hope to conclude the testimony on the three remaining defense agencies which we were unable to conclude yesterday. To avoid confusion we will begin with the requirements of the Reserve Forces which are, of course, unclassified. We will then take up while still in open session requirements for the defense agencies that are not of a classified nature. I understand that each of the principal witnesses has an unclassified statement which he may either read or submit for the record. Then we will go into executive session and clear up the remaining classified items. Prior to going into executive session, however, I will ask Mr. Sheridan to address himself briefly to any changes in the general provisions, title V of the bill, which were either requested by the Department of Defense or were made by the House of Representatives on its own initiative. STATEMENT OF EDWARD J. SHERIDAN, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR INSTALLATIONS Mr. SHERIDAN. Mr. Chairman, the House added section 609 which amends title 10 of the United States Code so as to make permanent the requirements of last year's Military Construction Authorization Act that construction work on the real property facilities of the defense agencies be accomplished by or through a military department, and that the facilities will be under the jurisdiction of that department. The Department of Defense accepts section 609 as added by the House. It is the same provision that we had last year. Section 610 was also added by the House Senator SALTONSTALL. Do you oppose the amendments in section 606? Mr. SHERIDAN. No, sir. Section 606-A is acceptable, Senator, as it stands, and section 606-B, Mr. McNamara will testify on some suggested revisions in connection with the family housing portion when he appears before the committee. Senator SALTONSTALL. Then do I understand that insofar as the committee is concerned we are in a fluid position as to 606-B until we hear from Mr. McNamara ? Mr. SHERIDAN. That is correct. There is a proposed revision on the dates. Senator SALTONSTALL. Perhaps the Chair and I don't agree on the word "fluid" but we will settle that at this end of the table. [Laughter.] Chairman RUSSELL. Have you referred to 610 yet? Mr. SHERIDAN Yes, sir: I did refer to 610. Chairman RUSSELL. That is the extension of the requirement for authorization in the field of research and development, test, and evaluation, I believe. Mr. SHERIDAN. Yes; that is correct, and that is acceptable. Mr. SHERIDAN. We have proposed section 608 which is a new provision this year, Mr. Chairman. That would amend title 10, United States Code, section 2674, on minor construction, and would increase the lower limit on the determination of urgency on minor construction projects from $5,000 to $25,000. Chairman RUSSELL. Didn't you propose that last year, too? Chairman RUSSELL. It seems to me there was some discussion of it in the committee. Mr. SHERIDAN. We discussed the possibility of raising it, but we didn't propose it officially; but the other provisions are standard provi sions. Chairman RUSSELL. Do you have any idea as to how many reports to the committee that would involve in an average year? Mr. SHERIDAN. It would involve about 1,200 projects. Mr. SHERIDAN. And the cost would be around $15 million, $10 to $15 million. Chairman RUSSELL. Where would you get those funds? Mr. SHERIDAN. They come out of the available funds of military construction or the O. & M. funds. Senator SALTONSTALL. Mr. Sheridan, should there be a provision in there so that you couldn't take amounts under $25,000 and have, one, two, three, and four of them, so that you really beat the devil around the bush? There is no provision against it, is there? Mr. SHERIDAN. The restriction on that type of action, Senator, is contained in the law right now. We wouldn't increment projects, that is, it has to be a total project. Senator SALTONSTALL. So there couldn't be four submitted for less than $25,000 each pertaining to one project, that would allow yon to complete or get away with a major project. Mr. SHERIDAN. That provision is in the law right now. Senator SALTONSTALL. It is in the law? Mr. SHERIDAN. Yes, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. Could you tell us where it is? |