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70A Stat. 468.

70A Stat. 590.

Commodity C r e d i t Corporation. • Payment.

Limitation.

ReBtrlction. 69 Stat. 652. 42 USC 1594a.

Repeal. 70 Stat. 1018. Occi^ancy.

Administration. R e n t a l housing designation.

PUBLIC LAW 85-241-AUG. 30, 1957

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"(f) Not more than 15 percent of the family quarters constructed from appropriated funds for enlisted members of the Army may be four-bedroom quarters having a net floor area of 1,250 square feet or. less." (b) Section 7574 is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: " (d) Not more than 15 percent of the family quarters constructed from appropriated funds for enlisted members of the Navy may be four-bedroom quarters having a net floor area of 1,250 square feet or less." (c) Section 9774 is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: " (f) Not more than 15 percent of the family quarters constructed from appropriated funds for enlisted members of the Air Force may be four-bedroom quarters having a net floor area of 1,250 square feet or less." SEC. 405. The second paragraph of section 407 of the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1119, 1125), as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "The Department of Defense shall pay the Commodity Credit Corporation, from appropriations otherwise available for the payment of quarters allowances for military personnel and from appropriate allotments or rental charges for civilian personnel, amounts equal to the quarters allowances or allotments otherwise payable to or the rental charges collected from personnel occupying any housing constructed or acquired under authority of this section after deducting amounts chargeable for the maintenance and operation of such housing: Provided, That such payments shall not exceed the dollar equivalent of the value of the foreign currencies used for all such construction or acquisition." SEC. 406. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, and effective July 1, 1958, no family housing units (other than housing units required to be acquired pursuant to the provisions of section 404 of the Housing Amendments of 1955) shall be contracted for or acquired at or in support of military installations or activities unless the actual number of units involved has been specifically authorized by an annual military construction authorization act. (b) Effective July 1, 1958, the provisions of section 419, Public Law 968, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, are hereby repealed. SEC. 407. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service, with dependents, may occupy on a rental basis, without loss of basic allowance for quarters, inadequate quarters under the jurisdiction of any of the uniformed services, notwithstanding that such quarters may have been constructed or converted for assignment as public quarters. The net difference between the basic allowance for quarters and the fair rental value of such quarters shall be paid from otherwise available appropriations. (b) The provisions of this section shall be administered under regulations approved by the President. (c) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force for the respective military departments, the Secretary of the Treasury for the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Treasury Department, the Secretary of Commerce for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for the Public Health Service (hereafter referred to as the "Secretaries"), are each authorized, subject to standards established pursuant to (b) above, to designate as rental housing such housing as he may determine to be inadequate as public quarters.

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