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 PUBLIC LAW 95-82—AUG. 1, 1977

91 STAT. 377

based on the following unit cost limitations where the area construction index is 1.0: (1) $42 per square foot for permanent barracks; or (2) $45 per square foot for bachelor officer quarters; unless the Secretary of Defense, or his designee, determines that because of special circumstances, application to such project of the limitations on unit costs contained in this section is impracticable. Notwithstanding the limitations contained in prior Military Construction Authorization Acts on unit costs, the limitations on such costs contaned in this section shall apply to all prior authorizations for such construction not heretofore repealed and for which construction contracts have not been awarded by the date of enactment of this Act. INCREASES FOR SOLAR HEATING AND SOLAR COOLING EQUIPMENT

SEC. 607. The Secretary of Defense shall encourage the utilization of solar energy as a source of energy for projects authorized by this Act where utilization of solar energy would be practical and economically feasible. In addition to all other authorized variations of cost limitations or floor area limitations contained in this Act or prior Military Construction Authorization Acts, the Secretary of Defense, or his designee, may permit increases in the cost limitations or floor area limitations by such amounts as may be necessary to equip any project with solar heating equipment, solar cooling equipment, or both solar heating and solar cooling equipment. MINOR

CONSTRUCTION

PROJECTS

SEC. 608. (a) Section 2674 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 10 USC 2674. "§2674. Minor construction projects "(a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may Regulations. prescribe, the Secretary of a military department or the Director of a defense agency may acquire, construct, convert, extend, and install, at military installations and facilities, permanent or temporary public works not otherwise authorized by law including the preparation of sites and the furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment, but excluding the construction of family quarters. "(b) This section does not authorize a project costing more than Cost limitations. $500,000. A project costing more than $400,000 must be approved in advance by the Secretary of Defense, and a project costing more than $300,000 must be approved in advance by the Secretary of the military department or the Director of the defense agency concerned. "(c) The total costs for all projects initiated under authority of this section by any military department, or by the defense agencies, in any fiscal year (except those projects funded from appropriations available for operations and maintenance as provided in subsection (e)) may not exceed the total amount authorized for minor construction projects for such military department or for the defense agencies, as the case may be, in the annual Military Construction Authorization Act for such fiscal year. "(d) Not more than $50,000 may be spent under this section during a fiscal year at any one installation or facility to convert structures to family quarters. "(e) Only funds appropriated to a military department or to the defense agencies for minor construction projects may be used by such department or by such agencies to accomplish minor construction proj-

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