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Puerto Rico. Conveyance.

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PUBLIC LAW 5 3 4 - J U L Y 27, 1954

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(b) Section 302 of the Act approved September 28, 1951 (65 Stat. 336), is hereby amended by striking the figures "$1,071,638,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,034,906,000". SEC. 303. The Secretary of the Air Force may convey by quitclaim deed to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico without cost to said Commonwealth all right, title and interest of the United States in and to approximately eighteen and three-hundredths acres of land located in the Ward of Monacillo, Municipality of Rio Piedras at San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as tract numbered 2 of the San Patricio gasoline storage project. TITLE IV ^^^- '*^^- "^^^ Secretary of the Army is authorized to establish or develop installations and facilities of the Alaska Communications System by the construction, conversion, rehabilitation, or installation of permanent or temporary public works in respect of the following projects, which include site preparation, appurtenances, and related utilities and equipment: Adak Station, Alaska: Operational facilities (including troop housing), $70,000. Bethel Station, Alaska: Troop housing, family housing, utilities, and operational facilities, $185,000. Cordova Station, Alaska: Operational facilities and utilities, $25,600. Kotzebue Station, Alaska: Troop housing, family housing, operational facilities, and utilities, $182,000. TITLE V

Acquisition of land, etc.

10 USC 1339; 31 u s e 529; 40 USC 259, 267. 33 USC 733 and note.

Restriction. Options

Report.

SEC. 501. (a) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are respectively authorized to proceed with the establishment or development of military and naval installations and facilities as authorized by titles I, II, III, and IV of this Act without regard to the provisions of sections 1136, 3648, and 3734, as respectively amended, of the Revised Statutes, and prior to approval of title to underlying land, as provided by section 355, as amended, of the Revised Statutes. The authority to establish or develop military installations and facilities shall include, in respect of those installations and facilities as to which the acquisition of land is specified in titles I, II, and III of this Act, authority to acquire lands and rights and interests thereto or therein, including the temporary use thereof, by donation, purchase, exchange of Government-owned lands, or otherwise. (b) No real estate not in Federal ownership shall be acquired by a military department except as such acquisition is or shall be expressly authorized by law: r*rovided, however, That the Secretaries of the military departments may, prior to such authorization, procure options on real estate which in their judgment is suitable and likely to be required in connection with prospective public works projects of the military departments and to pa^?^, out of any funds available to such departments for real estate activities, amounts not in excess of 3 per centum per annum of the appraised fair market value of the real estate involved as consideration for such options: Provided further, That for each semiannual period beginning July 1, 1954, during which a military department procures any option under the authority of this section, the Secretary of such military department shall render to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives a report as to the options procured during such period.

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