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lowing "and no certificates with respect to any family housing units shall be issued by the Secretary of Defense or his designee under section 810 of the National Housing Act, as amended,". (c) Paragraph (B) of section 803(b)(3) of such Act is amended by inserting before the semicolon at the end thereof a colon and the following: And provided further, That subject to the limitations of this paragraph no family unit included in any mortgaged property shall be contracted for after the date of enactment of the Military Construction Act of 1960 if the cost of such unit exceeds $19,800." SEC. 508. Section 407 of the Act of August 30, 1957 (71 Stat. 531, 557), as amended, is further amended by adding the following subsection: " (g) The Secretaries of Defense and Health, Education, and Welfare, in order to insure as far as possible that family housing under their jurisdiction is adequate as public quarters and fully utilized, shall maintain such continual surveillance and conduct such periodic surveys of such quarters as they shall deem necessary for this purpose. Where either Secretary or his designee determines, on the basis of such surveys, that it is not in the best interest of the United States to improve, demolish, or otherwise dispose of any quarters which have been determined inadequate under this section, he may exempt such quarters from the requirements of subsection (e) of this section: Provided, That any quarters so exempted must be improved, demolished, or otherwise disposed of not later than July 1, 1962." SEC. 509. Notwithstanding the proAdsions of any other law, at least 75 per centum of the total cost of any family housing project or community facility hereafter constructed or acquired in any foreign country by the Department of Defense or any military department shall be paid for from foreign currencies acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954; except that the following projects authorized pursuant to this Act shall not be subject to this requirement: Air Force activities, Japan, one hundred fifty units; Cigli Air Base, Turkey, community facilities; Clark Air Force Base, Philippine Islands, one hundred units; Iraklion Air Station, Crete, community facilities; Kirknewton R A F, United Kingdom, fifty units; Naval Air Station, Naha, Okinawa, two hundred; and Site 1-5, Italy, one hundred units and community facilities. SEC. 510. 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 (other than Alaska) at a unit cost in excess of— (1) $32 per square foot for cold-storage warehousing; (2) $6 per square foot for regular warehousing; (3) $1,850 per man for permanent barracks; (4) $8,500 per man for bachelor officer quarters; unless the Secretary of Defense determines that, because of special circumstances, application to such project of the limitations on unit costs contained in this section is impracticable, gj,^. 511. Title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) Section 2662 is amended to read: "§2662. Real property transactions: Reports to the Armed Services Committees

" (a) The Secretary of a military department, or his designee, may not enter into any of the following listed transactions by or for the use of that department until after the expiration of 30 days from the date upon which a report of the facts concerning the proposed trans-

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