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PUBLIC LAW 93-166-NOV. 29, 1973

(b) The average unit cost for each military department for all units of family housing constructed in the United States (other than Hawaii and Alaska) shall not exceed $27,500 including the cost of the family unit and the proportionate costs of land acquisition, site preparation, and installation of utilities. (c) No family housing unit in the area specified in subsection (b) shall be constructed at a total cost exceeding $44,000 including the cost of the family unit and the proportionate costs of land acquisition, site preparation, and installation of utilities. (d) When family housing units are constructed in areas other than that specified in subsection (b) the average cost of all such units shall not exceed $37,000 and in no event shall the cost of any unit exceed $44,000. 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. 503. 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 (1) for the Department of the Army, $28,160,000. (2) for the Department of the Navy, $10,600,000. (3) for the Department of the Air Force, $23,750,000. SEC. 504. Notwithstanding the limitations contained in prior Military Construction Authorization Acts on cost of construction of family housing, the limitations on such cost contained in section 502 of this Act shall apply to all prior authorizations for construction of family housing not heretofore repealed and for which construction contracts have not been executed prior to the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 505. The Secretary of Defense, or his designee, is authorized to construct, or otherwise acquire, in foreign countries, twelve family housing units. This authority shall include the authority to acquire land and interests in land. The authorization contained in this section shall not be subject to the cost limitations set forth in section 502 of this Act, but the cost shall not exceed a total of $520,000 for all units nor $60,000 for any one unit, including the cost of the family unit and the proportionate costs of land acquisition, site preparation, and installation of utilities. SEC. 506. (a) Section 610(a) of Public Law 90-110 (81 Stat. 279, 305), as amended, is amended to read as follows: " (a) None of the funds authorized by this or any other Act may be expended for the improvement of any single family housing unit, or for the improvement of two or more housing units, when such units are to be converted into or used as a single family housing unit, the costs of which exceed $15,000 per unit including costs of repairs undertaken in connection therewith, and including any costs in connection with (1) the furnishing of electricity, gas, water and sewage disposal; (2) roads and walks; and (3) grading and drainage, unless such improvement in connection with such unit or units is specifically authorized by law. As used in this section the term 'improvement' includes alteration, expansion, extension, or rehabilitation of any housing unit or units, including that maintenance and repair which is to be accomplished concurrently with an improvement project. The provisions of this section shall not apply to projects authorized for restoration or replacement of housing units damaged or destroyed." (b) The Secretary of Defense, or his designee, is authorized to accomplish repairs and improvements to existing public quarters in

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