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PUBLIC LAW 92-545-OCT. 25, 1972

employees or personnel whose property is located on a base or installar tion, who sell or are unable to find a purchaser for such property, may surrender their interest in such property to the United States, and shall be entitled to compensation, notwithstanding lack of ownership of the land on which such property is located, in an amount equal to (A) 90 per centum of the sum of the present owner's purchase price of the dwelling and improvements, and all costs of ownership including interest on notes, utilities and services, maintenance and insurance, less (B) the total of all housing allowances received from the Government during ownership and occupancy of the dwelling, all rents collected, and the sale price, if any, received for the property, as determined by the Secretary of Defense: Provided, however, That the maximum compensation shall in no event exceed 90 per centum of the unamortized portion of the cost of the property, including improvements, at the time ownership is terminated, as reflected in the amortization schedule, if any, relating to such property. For the purpose of this subsection, the term 'United States' means the several States and the District of Columbia." TITLE VII GENERAL

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Limitation.

"United States."

PROVISIONS

SEC. 701. The Secretary of each military department may proceed to establish or develop installations and facilities under this Act without regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529), 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. 702. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act, but appropriations for public work projects authorized by titles I, II, III, IV, and V, shall not exceed— (1) for title I: Inside the United States, $441,704,000; outside the United States, $117,074,000; or a total of $558,778,000. (2) for title II: Inside the United States, $474,450,000; outside the United States, $41,217,000; or a total of $515,667,000. (3) for title III: Inside the United States, $232,925,000; outside the United States, $32,565,000; section 302, $18,660,000; or a total of $284,150,000. (4) for title IV: A total of $33,004,000. (5) for title V: Military family housing, $1,050,741,000. SEC. 703. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), any of the amounts specified in titles I, II, III, and IV of this Act, may, in the discretion of the Secretary concerned, be increased by 5 per centum when inside the United States (other than Hawaii and Alaska), and by 10 per centum when outside the United States or in Hawaii and Alaska, if he determines that such increase (1) is required for the sole purpose of meeting unusual variations in cost, and (2) could not have been reasonably anticipated at the time such estimate was submitted to the Congress. However, the total cost of all construction and acquisition in each such title may not exceed the total amount authorized to be appropriated in that title.

Construction authority. Waiver of restrictions. 70A Stat. 269, 590.

Appropriation.

Cost v a r i a t i o n s.

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