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PUBLIC LAW 968-AUG. 3, 1956

(1) authorizations for public works and for appropriations therefor that are set forth m those Acts in the titles that contain the general provisions; (2) the authorization for public works projects as to which appropriated funds have been obligated for construction contracts m whole or in part before July 1, 1957, and authorizations for appropriations therefor; (3) the authorization for the rental guaranty for family housing in the amount of $100,000,000 that is contained in section 302 of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress; (4) the authorizations for public works and the appropriation of funds that are contained in the National Defense Facilities Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. 881 et seq.); and (5) the authorization for the development of the Line of Communications, France, in the amount of $82,000,000, that is contained in title I, section 102 of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress. SEC. 411. (a) The first paragraph of section 407 of the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1119), as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "In addition to family housing and community facilities otherwise authorized to be constructed or acquired by the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense is authorized, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to construct, or acquire by lease or otherwise, family housing for occupancy as public quarters, and community facilities, in foreign countries through housing and community facilities projects which utilize foreign currencies to a value not to exceed $250,000,000 acquired pursuant to the provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 454) or through other commodity transactions of the Commodity Credit Corporation." (b) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretaries of the military departments such amounts other than foreign currencies as are necessary for the construction, or acquisition by lease or otherwise, of family housing and community facilities projects in foreign countries that are authorized by section 407 of the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1119), as amended, but the amount so appropriated for any such project may not be more than 25 per centum of the total cost of that project. SEC. 412. Section 515 of the Act of July 15, 1955 (69 Stat. 324, 352) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 515. During the fiscal years 1956, 1957, and 1958 the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively, are authorized to lease housing facilities at or near military tactical installations for assignment as public quarters to military personnel and their dependents, if any, without rental charge upon a determination by the Secretary of Defense or his designee that there is a lack of adequate housing facilities at or near such military tactical installations. Such housing facilities shall be leased on a family or individual unit basis and not more than three thousand of such units may be so leased at any one time. Expenditures for the rental for such housing facilities may be made out of appropriations available for maintenance and operation but may not exceed $150 a month for any such unit." SEC. 413. (a) The net floor limitations prescribed by section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 (5 U.S.C. 626p) do not apply to forty-seven units of the housing authorized to be constructed at the United States Air Force Academy by the Act of April 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 47). The net floor area limitations for those forty-seven units are as follows: five thousand square feet for one unit for the Superintendent; three

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66 Stat. 302.

64 Stat. 829.

66 Stat. 609. 68 Stat. 1125. 5 USC 171z-l„ Housing i n foreign countries.

7 USC 69lnot.j. Limitation.

5 USC 171Z-1.

L e a s e s without rental charge.

Limitation.

Air Force Academy. 62 Stat. 379. 10 USC 1852.

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