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PUBLIC LAW 87-57-JUNE 27, 1961

TITLE VI GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 601. The Secretary of each military department may proceed to establish or develop installations and facilities under this Act without regard to sections 3648 and 3734 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529; 40 U.S.C. 269, 267), and sections 4774(d) and 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code. The authority to place permanent or temporary improvements on land includes authority for surveys, administration, overhead, planning, and supervision incident to construction. That authority may be exercised before title to the land is approved under section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. 255), and even though the land is held temporarily. The authority to acquire real estate or land includes authority to make surveys and to acquire land, and interests in land (including temporary use), by gift, purchase, exchange of Government-owned land, or otherwise. SEC. 602. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act, but appropriations for public works projects authorized by titles I, II, III, IV, and V (1) for title I: Inside the United States, $76,918,000; outside the United States, $37,243,000; section 102, $6,245,000; section 103, $10,000,000; or a total of $130,406,000. (2) for title II: Inside the United States, $79,239,000; outside the United States, $8,136,000; section 202, $40,969,000; section 203, $10,000,000; or a total of $138,344,000. (3) for title III: Inside the United States, $146,868,000; outside the United States, $32,293,000; section 302, $285,300,000; section 303, $10,000,000; or a total of $474,461,000. (4) for title IV: $8,650,000. (5) for title V: $27,000,000. SEC. 603. Any of the amounts named in titles I, II, and III of this Act, may, in the discretion of the Secretary concerned, be increased by 6 per centum for projects inside the United States (other than Alaska) and by 10 per centum for projects outside the United States or in Alaska, if he determines in the case of any particular project that such increase (1) is required for the sole purpose of meeting unusual variations in cost arising in connection with that project, and (2) could not have been reasonably anticipated at the time such project was submitted to the Congress. However, the total costs of all projects in each such title may not be more than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for projects in that title. SEC. 604. Whenever— (1) the President determines that compliance with section 2313(b) of title 10, United States Code, for contracts made under this Act for the establishment or development of military installations and facilities in foreign countrievS would interfere with the carrying out of this Act; and (2) the Secretary of Defense and the Comptroller General have agreed upon alternative methods of adequately auditing those contracts; the President may exempt those contracts from the requirements of that section. SEC. 605. Contracts for construction made by the United States for performance within the United States and its possessions, under this Act shall be executed under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, or the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department of the Navy, unless the Secretary of Defense

L and improve ments, etc.

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Approprisition.

Cost variations and limitations.

Contracts 70A Stat. 133.

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