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PUBLIC LAW 92-118-AUG. 13, 1971

[85 STAT.

Public Law 92-118 'August 13, 1971 [H. R. 5208]

Coast Guard, Appropriation authorization; personnel strength.

AN ACT To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard, and to authorize the annual active duty personnel strength of the Coast Guard. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1972 for the use of the Coast Guard as follows: VESSELS

For procurement and increasing capability of vessels, $132,446,000. A. Procurement: (1) design of vessels. (2) one replacement polar icebreaker. (3) three high-endurance cutters. None of the vessels authorized herein shall be procured from other than shipyards and facilities within the United States. B. Increasing capability: (1) increase fuel capacity and improve habitability on highendurance cutters of the three-hundred-and-twenty-seven-foot class. (2) rehabilitate and improve selected buoy tenders. (3) modernize and improve wind class polar icebreakers. (.4) reweld hull and repair cutter (polar icebreaker) Glacier. (5) increase oceanographic capability of cutter Evergreen. (6) modernize communications capability in selected vessels. (7) replace radio teletypes in selected high-endurance vessels. (8) install water pollution control equipment in vessels. (9) install wmter pollution monitoring sensors in vessels. AIRCRAFT

For procurement and extension of service life of aircraft, $41,574,000. AL. Procurement: (1) five long-range search aircraft. (2) six medium-range helicopters. (3) one administrative aircraft. B. Extension of service life: (1) repair outer wings on six HC-130 aircraft. (2) replace center wing box beam on three HC-130 aircraft. (3) reactivate six H U - 1 6 E aircraft. (4) install water pollution monitoring sensors in aircraft. CONSTRUCTION

For establishment or development of installations and facilities by acquisition, construction, conversion, extension, or installation of permanent or temporary public works, including the preparation of sites and furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment for the following, $62,190,000. (1) Newbury port, Massachusetts: rebuild Merrimac River Station; (2) Gloucester, Massachusetts: rebuild station; (3) Marshfield, Massachusetts: construct barracks at radio station;

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