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Options. 72 Stat. 1460.

Unit cost limitations.

Real property facilities.

PUBLIC LAW 87-554-JULY 27, 1962

[76 STAT,

(b) maintenance facilities in the amount of $330,000 at the Pacific Missile Range, Point Mugu, California, that is contained in title II, section 201, under the heading "INSIDE THE UNITED STATES" and subheading "AVIATION FACILITIES (Special Purpose Air Stations)" in the Act of August 10, 1959 (73 Stat. 302,307); and (c) maintenance facilities, medical facilities, supply facilities, troop housing, community facilities, and utilities and ground improvements in the amount of $3,957,000 for Naval Radio Research Station, Sugar Grove, West Virginia, that is contained in title II, section 201, under the heading "INSIDE THE UNITED STATES" and subheading "COMMUNICATION FACILITIES" of the Act of August 10, 1959 (73 Stat. 308). SEC. 607. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2677 of title 10, United States Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) The Secretary of a military department may acquire an option on a parcel of real property before or after its acquisition is authorized by law, if he considers it suitable and likely to be needed for a military project of his department. (b) As consideration for an option acquired under subsection (a), the Secretary may pay, from funds available to his department for real property activities, an amount that is not more than 5 per centum of the appraised fair market value of the property. However, such amount must be credited to the purchase price of the property if the acquisition is completed. SEC. 608. ^ None of the authority contained in titles I, II, and III of this Act shall be deemed to authorize any building construction project inside the United States (other than Alaska) at a unit cost in excess of— (1) $32 per square foot for cold-storage warehousing; (2) $8 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. SEC. 609. Section 109(a) of the Act of August 20, 1958 (72 Stat. 641), as amended by section 413 of the Act of August 10, 1959 (73 Stat. 322), is further amended by striking the preceding comma and the following: "and four hundred acres for a temporary spoil disposal area for a period of ten years," and by inserting at the end of the said section 109(a), "The Administrator of General Services shall, incident to this sale, reserve (for the benefit of the Chief of Engineers) a spoil disposal easement expiring August 20, 1968, on four hundred acres to be selected by the Administrator." SEC. 610. (a) Any maintenance, rehabilitation, repair, alteration, addition, expansion, or extension of real property facilities required incident to the operation of activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments) financed from appropriations for military functions of the Department of Defense and any construction of real property facilities authorized herein for such activities and agencies will be accomplished by or through military departments designated by the Secretary of Defense. (b) Real property facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense utilized by activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments) shall be under the jurisdiction of a military department designated by the Secretary of Defense.

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