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PUBLIC LAW 219-AUG. 4, 1955

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personnel in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and other personal services necessary for the purposes of this appropriation; $442,628,300, to remain available until expended. AUDITED CLAIMS

Applicable current appropriations of the Department of the Navy shall be available for the payment of claims certified by the Comptroller General to be otherwise due, in the amounts stated below, from the following appropriations: "Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts", fiscal year 1943, $171.48; "Pay, subsistence, and transportation. Navy", fiscal year 1943, $3,344.24; "Maintenance, Bureau of Ships", fiscal year 1946, $5,838.42; and "Transportation of things. Navy", fiscal year 1948, $1,359.86. DEPARTMENT or THE A I R FORCE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR rr>RCE

64 Stat. 829. 50 USC 881 note. 65 Stat. 350. 66 Stat. 613. 67 Stat. 444. 68 Stat. 47, 543. Ante,,p. 337. 10 USC 1339; 40 u s e 259, 267.

Ante, p. 347.

For an additional amount for acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities for the Air Force as authorized by the Act of September 11, 1950 (Public Law 783), the Act of September 28, 1951 (Public Law 155), the Act of July 14, 1952 (Public Law 534), the Act of August 7, 1953 (Public Law 209), the Act of April 1, 1954 (Public Law 325), the Act of July 27, 1954 (Public Law 534), the Act of September 1, 1954 (Public Law 765), and of the Act of July 15, 1955 (Public Law 161), without regard to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended; including hire of passenger motor vehicles, including research and development facilities at WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; to remain available until expended, $994,291,000 of which $255,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Procurement and production. Army ": Provided, That not to exceed $350,000 of this appropriation shall be used for the purposes authorized by section 303 of the Act of July 15, 1955 (Public Law 161). GENERAL

Ante, p. 324. e o s t - p l u s - afixed-fee contracts.

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PROVISIONS

SEC. 302. Funds appropriated to the military departments for military public works in prior years are hereby made available for military public works authorized for each such department by the Act of July 15, 1955 (Public Law 161). S E C 303. None of the funds appropriated in this chapter shall be expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work where cost estimates exceed $25,000 to be performed within the continental United States without the specific approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense setting forth the reasons therefor. SEC. 304, None of the funds appropriated in this chapter shall be expended for additional costs involved in expediting construction, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies such costs to be necessary to protect the national interest and establishes a reasonable completion date for each such project, taking into consideration the urgency of the requirement, the type and location of the project, the climatic and seasonal conditions affecting the construction and the application of economical construction practices. SEC. 305. None of the funds appropriated in this chapter shall be used for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery,

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