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70A Stat. 127. 41 USC 152. Report to C o n gress.

Repeals.

Exceptions.

68 Stat. 559. 70A Stat. 120123. 64 Stat. 830,831.

68 Stat. 537.

Cost limitation.

PUBLIC LAW 85-241-AUG. 30, 1957

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(2) the Secretary of Defense and the Comptroller General have agreed upon alternative methods for adequately auditing those contracts; the President may exempt those contracts from the requirements of that section. SEC. 505. Contracts made by the United States under this Act shall be awarded, insofar as practicable, on a competitive basis to the lowest responsible bidder, if the national security will not be impaired and the award is consistent with chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and section 15 of the Act of August 9, 1955 (69 Stat. 547, 551). The Secretaries of the military departments shall report semiannually to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives with respect to all contracts awarded on other than a competitive basis to the lowest responsible bidder. SEC. 506. As of July 1, 1958, 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and all authorizations for appropriations therefor, that are contained, in Acts approved before July 28, 1954, and not superseded or otherwise modified by a later authorization are repealed, except— (1) authorizations for public works and for appropriations therefor that are set forth in those Acts in the titles that contain the general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 in whole or in part before July 1, 1958, 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 sections 2231-2238 of title 10, United States Code, as amended (50 U.S.C. 882, 883, 885, 886); (5) the authorization for the development of the Line of Communications, France, in the amount of $60,000,000 that is contained in title I, section 102, of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress; (6) notwithstanding the provisions of section 410 of the Act of August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 991, 1016), the authorization for (a) development of classified facilities in the amount of $6,439,000 that is contained in title I, section 102, of the Act of September 28, 1951 (65 Stat. 336, 343), and (b) development of classified facilities in the amount of $6,654,000 that is contained in title I, section 102 of the Act of July 14, 1952 (66 Stat. 606, 609); and (T) the authorization for public works and for the appropriations of funds that are contained in the Act of April 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 47), as amended. SEC. 507. 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^ $28 per square foot for cold-storage warehousing; (b) $6 per square foot for regular warehousing; (c) $1,850 per man for permanent barracks; (d) $7,500 per man for bachelor officer quarters, unless the Secretary of Defense determines that, because of specia circumstances, application to such project of the limitation on uni costs contained in this section is impracticable.

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