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74 Stat. 186.

Foreign countries. Military housing.

76 Stat. 523.

Appropriation authorization.

68 Stat. 603.

PUBLIC LAW 88-174-NOV. 7, 1963

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to military personnel and their dependents, if any, without rental charge, upon a determination by the Secretary of Defense, or his designee, that there is a lack of adequate housing facilities at or near such military installations. Such housing facilities shall be leased on a family or individual unit basis and not more than five thousand of such units may be so leased at any one time. Expenditures for the rental of such housing facilities may not exceed an average of $160 a month for any such unit, including the cost of utilities and mainteiiance and operation." SEC. 506. Section 40r(g) of Public Law 85-241 (Tl Stat. 531, 556), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1594j (g)), is amended by changing the period to a semicolon and adding the following: And provided further, That the Secretary of Defense, or his designee, may exempt from this requirement any housing at any particular installation as to which he determines that (1) the housing is safe, decent, and sanitary, so as to be suitable for occupancy; (2) the housing cannot be made adequate as public quarters with a reasonable expenditure of funds; (3) the rentals charged to, or the allowances forfeited by, the occupants are not less than the costs of maintaining and operating the housing; and (4) there is a continuing need which cannot appropriately be met by privately owned housing in the area." SEC. 507. For the purpose of providing military family housing in foreign countries, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to enter into agreements guaranteeing the builders of such housing a rental return equivalent to a specified portion of the annual rental income which the builders would receive from the tenants if the housing were fully occupied: Provided, That the aggregate amount guaranteed under such agreements entered into during the fiscal years 1964 and 1965 shall not exceed such amount as may be applicable to five thousand units: Provided further', That no such agreement shall guarantee the payment of more than 97 per centum of the anticipated rentals, nor shall any guarantee extend for a period of more than ten years, nor shall the average guaranteed rental on any project exceed $150 per unit per jnonth including the cost of maintenance and operation. SEC. 508. Section 2681(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: " (b) The Department of Defense shall pay the Conmiodity Credit Corporation an amount not to exceed $6,000,000 a year until the amount due for foreign currencies used for housing constructed or acquired under this section has been liquidated." SEC. 509. There is authorized to be appropriated for use by the Secretary of Defense or his designee for military family housing as authorized by law for the following purposes: (a) for construction and acquisition of family housing, including improvements to adequate quarters, improvements to inadequate quarters, minor construction, rental guarantee payments, construction and acquisition of trailer court facilities, and planning, an amount not to exceed $211,912,000 of which not to exceed $9,400,000 is authorized to be appropriated for initial acquisition during fiscal year 1964 of 2,023 housing units, pursuant to title IV of the Housing Amendments of 1955, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1594 et seq.) and improvements to such units; and (b) for support of military family housing, including operating expenses, leasing, maintenance of real property, payments of principal and interest on mortgage debts incurred, payments to the Commodity Credit Corporation, and mortgage insurance premiums authorized under section 222 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 TT.S.C. 1715m), an amount not to exceed $473,400,000.

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