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PUBLIC LtAW 969-AUG. 3, <1956

(1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and of the House of Representatives a written report stating the intent to construct or acquire such units, certifying that the number of units to be constructed or acquired is consistent with the long range troop strength to be stationed at the location of such units, and showing the location, number, and estimated cost of such housing units, and the existing housing at such location; and (2)(a) a one hundred and eighty-day period has elapsed since the submission of such report^ or (b) the committees have advised the Secretary of Defense, m writing, that there are no further questions to be asked concerning the project contemplated in such contract. SEC. 420. The first two sentences of section 404 of the Housing Amendments of 1955 are amended to read as follows: "Whenever the Secretary of Defense or his designee deems it necessary for the purpose of this title, he may acquire by purchase, donation, condemnation, or other means of transfer, any land or (with the approval of the Federal Housing Commissioner) any housing financed with mortgages insured under the provisions of title VIII of the National Housing Act as in effect prior to the enactment of the Housing Amendments of 1955. The purchase price of any such housing shall not exceed the Federal Housing Administration Commissioner's estimate of the replacement cost of such housing and related property (not including the value of any improvements installed or constructed with appropriated funds) as of the date of final endorsement for mortgage insurance reduced by an appropriate allowance for physical depreciation, as determined by the Secretary of Defense or his designee upon the advice of the Commissioner: Provided, That in any case where the Secretary or his designee acquires a project held by the Commissioner, the price paid shall not exceed the face value of the debentures (plus accrued interest thereon) which the Commissioner issued in acquiring such project." SEC. 421. None of the authority contained in titles I, II, and III of this Act shall be deemed to authorize any building construction project within the continental United States at an average nationwide unit cost in excess of— (a) $22 per square foot for cold-storage warehousing; (b) $6 per square foot for regular warehousing; (c) $1,850 per man for permanent barracks; (d) $6,500 per man for bachelor officer quarters, unless the Secretary of Defense determines that, because of special circumstances, application to such project of the limitation on unit costs contained in this section is impracticable. SEC. 422. None of the authorization contained in section 101 of this Act for the construction of three-hundred-and-twenty-six-man barracks with mess shall be used to provide, with respect to any such barracks, for mess facilities other than a single, consolidated mess. Approved August 3, 1956.

Public Law 969

Report to C o n gressional cotrimittees.

69 Stat. 652. 42 USC 1594a.

Ante, p. 273.

Cost limitation. An 1 te,O, p p. 9 9 1, . J. 994, 1002.

Army. Mess f a c i l i t i e s.

CHAPTER 940

AN ACT To auieiid the Veterans Regulations to provide additional compensation for veterans having the service-incurred disability of loss or loss of use of both buttocks. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subparagraphs

August 3, 1956 [H. R. 2845]

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