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Re storation of d a m a g e d facilities.

Additional projects. Cost limitation.

Report to C o n gressional committees.

Housing. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

5 USC 626p. 34 USC § I Ib9 lid.

Authorization r e p e a l s and exceptions.

PUBLIC LAW 968-AUG. 3, 1956

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ever, be used to acquire more than one parcel of land unless the parcels are noncontifjuous or, if contiguous, do not exceed $5,000 in total cost. SEC. 407. The Secretaries of the military departments may, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense and following notification of the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, acquire, construct, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment, to restore or replace facilities damaged or destroyed. SEC. 408. (a) Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretaries of the military departments may expend out of appropriations available for military construction such amounts as may be required for the establishment and development of military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing (except family quarters), converting, extending, or installing permanent or temporary public works determined to be urgently required, including site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment, for projects not otherwise authorized by law when the cost of the project is not in excess of $200,000, subject to the following limitations: (1) No such project, the cost of which is in excess of $50,000, shall be authorized unless approved in advance by the Secretary of Defense. (2) No such project, the cost of which is in excess of $25,000 shall be authorized unless approved in advance by the Secretary of the military department concerned. (3) Not more than one allotment may be made for any project authorized under this section. (4) The cost of conversion of existing structures to family quarters may not exceed $50,000 in any fiscal year at any single facility. (b) The Secretaries of the military departments may expend out of appropriations available for maintenance and operation amounts necessary to accomplish a project which, except for the fact that its cost does not exceed $25,000, would otherwise be authorized to be accomplished under subsection (a). (c) The Secretary of each department shall report in detail semiannually to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives with respect to the exercise of the authorities granted by this section. (d) Section 26 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 853, 856; 34 U.S.C. 559), is repealed. SEC. 409. (a) The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Secretary of a military department, may provide family housing at Fort McNair, District of Columbia, for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by the construction or rehabilitation of one set of family housing, and special communication facilities, without regard to the second proviso of section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 (62 Stat. 375, 379), or section 3 of the Act of June 16, 1948 (62 Stat. 459, 462). (b) Appropriations not to exceed $180,000 ($100,000 for the family housing unit and $80,000 for special communication facilities) available to the military departments for military construction may be utilized for the purposes of this section without regard to the limitations on the cost of family housing otherwise prescribed by law. SEC. 410. As of July 1, 1957, all authorizations for military public works to be accomplished by the Secretary of a military department in connection with the establishment or development of military installations and facilities, and all authorizations for appropriations therefor, that are contained in Acts enacted before July 15, 1952, and not superseded or otherwise modified by a later •authorization are repealed, except—

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