General SHULER. No, sir. What we are doing here is putting this system into the new barracks we are constructing, just a few of them. We would like to do it in all of them but the size of the budget just will not allow us to do it.

This was approved by Department of Defense as a start, sir, on providing this protection.

Chairman RUSSELL. Thank you, Senator Cannon. I overlooked that question.

FORT JAY, N.Y.

General SHULER. Our next station is Fort Jay, N.Y., the location of 1st Army Headquarters.

At Fort Jay, we have one item in this year's program which is listed on page 15 of the books. This project is for replacement of three existing 600-gallon-per-minute pumps with three 1,200-gallonper-minute pumps, replacement of 5,150 feet of water main and installation of two transformers and one generator.

The item is required to improve the water distribution system to meet domestic and fire protection requirements. At the present time supply is not sufficient to meet firefighting requirements during periods of peak domestic demand. If this item is not approved, the existing risk of personal injury and property damage from fire will continue. This concludes our program for the 1st Army area.

SECOND ARMY AREA

FORT BELVOIR, VA.

General SHULER. The first installation in the 2d Army area is Fort Belvoir, Va., for which we are requesting approval of the five projects listed on pages 18 and 19 of the book. Fort Belvoir for a long time has been the base for our engineer training, home of the Engineer Research and Development Laboratories, and now also has the mission of supporting the headquarters of the Combat Development Command.

The first item at Fort Belvoir, on page 20, is for 7,240 square feet extension to an existing classroom building. The project is estimated to cost $146,000.

This project is required to provide two additional classrooms, latrine facilities, and administrative space to support the construction equipment course of instruction conducted by the U.S. Army Engineer School. A new block of instruction (maintenance management) has been added to the fiscal year 1963 curriculum. This new course requires the use of the case study method and small group conferences. Existing facility contains four 50-man classrooms; three are available for training while the fourth has been diverted to administrative space for the staff and faculty. The additional administrative space will release the diverted classroom and result in a net gain of three classrooms. Existing latrine facilities are inadequate and students are required to use facilities located approximately 150 yards away. To accommodate the several courses, maximum rescheduling has been accomplished and during overlapping periods as many as three courses must be conducted simultaneously. When overlapping occurs, existing facilities are inadequate and training is conducted out of doors.

This is ineffective during wet weather and during the winter months. Senator CANNON. On your page 20, at Fort Belvoir, the classroom building addition runs approximately $20 a foot. Isn't that rather high, $19.50 unit cost. This is an addition onto an existing building, as I understand it.

General SHULER. Will you comment on that, Mr. Zackrison?

Mr. ZACKRISON. Yes, sir. Classroom buildings will generally run at least $20 a square foot, sir, and this would not be an exception to that.

Senator CANNON. That is about the average ?

Mr. ZACKRISON. That is about the average, sir.

Senator CANNON. I notice on page 22, you show a building addition for Fort Belvoir that runs about $13.50 a square foot.

General SHULER. This particular one on page 22, sir, I believe is to house the air-conditioning equipment that we would use to air-condition the rest of the Engineer School building. This is the main Engineer School building. On the other one on page 20, $4,000 of the cost is for mechanical ventilation that would be in the classroom building.

So if we didn't put the mechanical ventilation in this thing, it would bring it down a little bit. Also, if we left the site preparation and utilities out, which we should to get the cost of the buildings reflected, I believe it would bring it down as you see here, to $19.50 a square foot.

Senator CANNON. That is what I said. It runs about $20 a square foot to get the building. It doesn't define clearly what that building addition is on page 22, but that runs $13.50 a square foot.

If it is just a building for housing equipment, that might explain it; I don't know.

General SHULER. Here is what it is, sir. First of all, there is the air conditioning, then the second item on page 22, the building addition is for the air conditioning. This is an unfinished type building to house the air conditioner. Modification to the existing building are for ducts and whatever needed to make the system work.

Senator CANNON. Those are the only question I have at present, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Inouye?

Senator INOUYE. No questions, Mr. Chairman.

General SHULER. The second Fort Belvoir item at $164,000 is for additions and alterations to the Missile Instruction School. This facility is required to train enlisted personnel in operation and maintenance of precise power generating equipment. This equipment is used with HAWK, NIKE-HERCULES, SERGEANT, and PERSHING missile systems. Existing facilities do not provide adequate training and deferment of the project to a subsequent year will preclude attainment of essential proficiency. The existing training facilities do not permit effective instruction since some of the equipment cannot be set up for actual use. This project will permit full utilization of training equipment which is on hand.

The next item, $290,000, will provide air conditioning for 13 classrooms and 2 offices in Humphreys Hall, the main academic building at Fort Belvoir.

Five classrooms and the auditorium have been air conditioned previously; the remainder of the classrooms and the officers utilize floor fans.

Air conditioning is required to provide an environment in the classrooms that is conducive to effective instruction. If this item is deferred, the quality of instruction will be adversely affected during the

summer season.

The fourth project, at $473,000, is for additions and improvements to the stationary medium No. 1 nuclear powerplant. These additions and improvements are required to provide safe and positive control of the unavoidable radioactive contamination that is characteristic of all nuclear powerplants. The SM-1, as the initial military nuclear powerplant acquired by DOD, was expected to reveal areas requiring design improvement. The plant will be separated into two areas, contaminated and uncontaminated (clean), divided by buffer zones. The separation (a walled-off area with only one entrance) will permit positive control on one central point of all entries into, and work within the contaminated area. Positive control of contamination is urgently required at the plant to protect the health and insure the safety of the many operating and trainee personnel; therefore, this work should not be deferred. At present, the plant has five separate areas containing contaminated equipment. No buffer zones exist to separate these contaminated areas from the clean areas. Elaborate precau

tionary measures are now taken to prevent the spread of contaminants: nevertheless, contamination of previously clean areas frequently occurs, requiring extensive cleanup operations. The findings of technical and health physics inspections show present contamination control measures to be inadequate.

The last item at this important Army installation is a masonary block building of 5,856 square feet required to house nuclear powerplant simulators. They will be used to train operators for the Navy PM-3A plant in Antarctica: Army operators for two types of mobile nuclear powerplants to accommodate a trailer-mounted mockup of the Army mobile gas-cooled plant (ML-1A). The responsibility for providing the three military services with trained personnel to operate military nuclear powerplants developed under the joint Army AEC nuclear power program has been assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers. A nuclear powerplant simulator is a complex analog computer which permits operators to be safely trained on the use of plant controls on the type of plant to which they will later be assigned. The two initial simulators to be accommodated by this building will be delivered in fiscal year 1965. There is one simulator (SM-1) in operation at Fort Belvoir at the present time. Although it is operated 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, for extended periods of time, it does not completely satisfy the requirement for training operators for the Navy plant, and will be of negligible value in training operators of mobile plants.

FORT EUSTIS, VA.

Mr. Chairman, this year we request approval of two projects for Fort Eustis, Va., in the total amount of $297,000. These projects are listed on page 25 in the books.

The first item is estimated at $164,000 and you will provide 4,800 square feet of motor repair shop space and 7,700 square yards of bituminous paved vehicle parking area.

This item is required for units to perform organizational maintenance on miscellaneous-type vehicles assigned in support of their training mission. Present facilities, Buildings T-659 and T-2509 are not equipped with essential utility systems and servicing equipment such as adequate heating, lighting, lubrication, water, and compressed air. These buildings are deteriorated to the extent that rehabilitation and installation of adequate maintenance equipment and systems is not economically feasible. Tactical vehicles which will be maintained in the proposed shops are assigned to STRAC and STRAF units. These vehicles must be maintained constantly in an operational state-ready to roll when directed.

The other item is for replacement of main steam supply and condensate return lines in the post hospital area. The work will consist of installing supply and return piping to existing buildings, erection of a steam condensate pumping station, and removal of all existing deteriorated piping replaced by new system.

The existing steam distribution system serving the post hospital area was constructed in 1941 with an expected life of 10 years. General deterioration of the system prevents effective maintenance, resulting in 40 percent loss in condensate. Condensate return lines have corroded through in numerous places, insulation is deteriorated and ineffective; and Central Heating Plant, No. 195, serving the area, operates at reduced efficiency with abnormal treated makeup water required.

FORT KNOX, KY.

Our next installation is Fort Knox, Ky., the home of the Armor School and the Army Maintenance Board. This installation is also a major recruit training center. The six items for Fort Knox is this year's bill listed on pages 29 and 30 of our book total $1,257,000.

The first of these will provide a 3-stall fire and rescue station at Godman Army Airfield. Godman Army Airfield has an average of 280 daily flight operations and a total of 56 aircraft currently assigned. The existing fire station is a modified theater of operations type structure. The apparatus room was added to an existing structure which was modified for a dormitory in 1942. This building has served its useful life and has deteriorated to the extent that it cannot be economically repaired. Roofing and siding and other structural members need replacing. The existing facilities, Building No. T-5221, will be demolished when the proposed project is completed.

The second project, at $87,000, provides for completion of a unit motor park on Range Road by construction of the following: oil and grease house; six grease racks; A 10-bay wash platform; dispatch office; fence and security lighting; and related paving for these facilities. Due to lack of these facilities, makeshift provisions have been made, oil and grease is being stored in the open, vehicles are being driven approximately 3 miles for washing or using a makeshift washrack without any hard surface, which is entirely inadequate, and providing security guards for the motor park.

The third item at Fort Knox is for maintenance shops and ancillary facilities to complete a tank battalion motor park on North Delaware Street.

The motor park was originally planned for 8 shop buildings which were required to maintain 200 to 250 tanks and heavy wheeled vehicles. Three motor parks were started so that new construction could serve the greatest number of troops. This project will complete one of these facilities started in 1952. Because of the lack of the proposed facilities, maintenance is being performed outside in inclement weather, oil and grease are being stored in the open, and tanks are being parked on crushed stone which cannot be satisfactorily maintained. Upon completion of this project, the existing crushed stone hardstand will be replaced with concrete and other undesirable features will be eliminated.

The next item, Mr. Chairman, is a 26-chair dental clinic which we estimated at a cost of $466,000.

This item is required to provide a permanent dental treatment facility incorporating features necessary to support modern dentistry techniques. Except for 17 dental chairs in permanent buildings the existing facilities consist of 5 temporary-type buildings constructed during World War II to provide primarily for emergency dental care. Procedures such as crown and bridgework, prosthodontia, and similar specialties were accomplished only when the health and well-being of the patient was at stake; these now are common procedures with a dental intern program that requires teaching modern methods and procedures in up-to-date facilities. These modern methods cannot be accomplished adequately with the makeshift and limited facilities available at this installation; furthermore, procurement of qualified dental corps officers is hampered because of the unsatisfactory conditions under which doctors must work while on temporary active duty. Existing Building T-6610 will be demolished when new facilities are provided.

The fifth item, at $59,000, is a battalion headquarters building which is required in support of permanent barracks constructed during the 1950's.

Four battalion headquarters have been provided permanent housing. The 5th Battalion Headquarters is housed in space diverted to this use in one of the enlisted men's barracks. This reduces the enlisted men's housing capacity by 22 spaces. The diverted spaces currently used is not suitably arranged for efficient administration. Deferment of this project will result in the continued use of diverted barracks space with inefficient administrative area. Completion of proposed facility will release the diverted area to barracks use.

The last item at Knox is for construction of a railroad spur from the main post trackage to the Muldraugh magazine area.

This project is required to provide Fort Knox with an alternate means for delivering ammunition. The lack of rail facilities at this station has dictated that delivery be made by commercial trucklines. Based on ammunition used in the past, an annual savings of approximately $121,000 per year could be expected if this project is accomplished. Deferment of this project will result in continued high transportation cost for ammunition. The existing facilities are not considered inadequate, but are considered uneconomical in view of present truck rates as compared with rail rates. No present accommodations will be disposed of as a result of this project, but it will provide an alternate means of obtaining ammunition.