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PUBLIC LAW 93-552-DEC. 27, 1974

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project. Such report shall include all pertinent cost information for each individual project, including the amount in dollars and percentage by which the current working estimate based on the contract price for the project exceeded the amount authorized for such project by the Congress. (e) In addition to other cost variation limitations contained in this section or in similar sections of prior year military construction authorization Acts, any of the amounts specified in titles I, II, III, and IV of this and prior military construction authorization Acts may be varied upward by an additional 10 per centum when the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that such increase is required to meet unusual variations in cost directly attributable to difficulties arising out of the current energy crisis. 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. SEC. 604. Contracts for construction made by the United States for ^isi""*'"^* ^"^^" performance within the United States and its possessions under this Act shall be executed under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, or the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy, or such other department or Government agency as the Secretaries of the military departments recommend and the Secretary of Defense approves to assure the most efficient, expeditious, and cost-effective accomplishment of the construction herein authorized. The Secretaries of the Reports to conmilitary departments shall report annually to the President of the ^''^^^• Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a breakdown of the dollar value of construction contracts completed by each of the several construction agencies selected together with the design, construction supervision, and overhead fees charged by each of the several agents in the execution of the assigned construction. Further, such contracts (except architect and engineering contracts which, unless specifically authorized by the Congress shall continue to be awarded in accordance with presently established procedures, customs, and practice) shall be awarded, insofar as practicable, on a competitive basis to the lowest responsible bidder, if the national security will not be impaired and the award is consistent with chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code. The Secretaries of the military depart- j^o use 2301. ments shall report annually to the President of the Senate and the gress^'^'° ^°"" Speaker of the House of Representatives with respect to all contracts awarded on other than a competitive basis to the lowest responsible bidder. SEC. 605. As of October 1, 1975, all authorizations for military public Repeals, works including family housing, to be accomplished by the Secretary of a military department in connection with the establishment or development of installations and facilities, and all authorizations for appropriations therefor, that are contained in titles I, II, III, IV, and V of the Act of November 29, 1978, Public Law 93-166 (87 Stat. 661), and all such authorizations contained in Acts approved before November 30, 1973, and not superseded or otherwise modified by a later authorization are repealed except— Exceptions. (1) authorizations for public works and for appropriations therefor that are set forth in those Acts in the titles that contain the general provisions; (2) authorizations for public works projects as to which appropriated funds have been obligated for construction contracts, land acquisition, or payments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in whole or in part before October 1, 1975, and authorizations for appropriations therefor;

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