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Cost limitations,

Retroactive provision.

Alterations, e t c., of quarters.

Military housing. Foreign countries. 42 USC 1594k.

Family housing management account. 42 USC 1594a-l.

PUBLIC LAW 90-110-OCT. 21, 1967

[81 STAT.

Albrook-Howard Air Force Bases, Canal Zone, fifty units. Bentwaters Air Base, United Kingdom, one hundred units. Upper Heyford Air Base, United Kingdom, seventy-five units. SEC. 602. Authorization for the construction of family housing provided in this Act shall be subject, under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, to the following limitations on cost, which shall include shades, screens, ranges, refrigerators, and all other installed equipment and fixtures: (a) The average unit cost for each military department for all units of family housing constructed in the United States (other than Hawaii and Alaska) and Puerto Rico shall not exceed $19,500, including the cost of the family unit and the proportionate costs of land acquisition, site preparation, and installation of utilities. (b) No family housing unit in the areas listed in subsection (a) shall be constructed at a total cost exceeding $35,000, including the cost of the family unit and the proportionate costs of land acquisition, site preparation, and installation of utilities. (c) When family housing units are constructed in areas other than those listed in subsection (a), the average cost of all such units, in any project of fifty units or more, shall not exceed $32,000, and in no event shall the cost of any unit exceed $40,000. The cost limitations of this subsection shall include the cost of the family unit and the proportionate costs of land acquisition, site preparation, and installation of utilities. SEC. 603. Notwithstanding the limitations contained in prior Military Construction Authorizations Acts on cost of construction of family housing, the limitations on such cost contained in section 602 of this Act shall apply to all prior authorizations for construction of family housing not heretofore repealed and for which construction contracts have not been executed by the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 604. The Secretary of Defense, or his designee, is authorized to accomplish alterations, additions, expansions, or extensions not otherwise authorized by law, to existing public quarters at a cost not to exceed (a) For the Department of the Army, $7,000,000. (b) For the Department of the Navy, $5,000,000. (c) For the Department of the Air Force, $5,000,000. (d) For the Defense Agencies, $671,000. SEC. 605. Section 507 of Public Law 88-174 (77 Stat. 307, 326), as amended by section 505 of Public Law 89-188 (79 Stat. 793, 814), is amended to read as follows: "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 or other sponsors of such housing a rental return equivalent to a specified portion of the annual rental income which the builders or other sponsors 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 1968 and 1969 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 $185 per unit per month, including the cost of maintenance and operation." SEC. 606. Section 501(b) of Public Law 87-554 (76 Stat. 223, 237) is amended by deleting the period at the end thereof and adding the

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