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 PUBLIC LAW 95-356—SEPT. 8, 1978

92 STAT. 577

TITLE V—MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING AUTHORIZATION TO CONSTRUCT OR ACQUIRE HOUSING

SEC. 501. (a) The Secretary of Defense, or his designee, is authorized to construct or acquire sole interest in existing family housing units in the numbers and at the locations hereinafter named, but no family housing construction shall be commenced at any such location in the United States until the Secretary shall have consulted with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as to the availability of suitable private housing at such location. If agreement cannot be reached with respect to the availability of suitable private housing at any location, the Secretary of Defense shall notify the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, of such difference of opinion, and no contract for construction at such location shall be entered into for a period of thirty days after such notification has been given. This authority shall include the authority to acquire land, and interests in land, by gift, purchase, exchange of Government-owned land, or otherwise. (b) With respect to the family housing units authorized to be constructed by this section, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to acquire sole interest in privately owned or Department of Housing and Urban Development held family housing units in lieu of constructing all or a portion of the family housing authorized by this section, if he, or his designee, determines such action to be in the best interests of the United States, but any family housing units acquired under authority of this subsection shall not exceed the cost limitations specified in this section for the project nor the limitations on size specified in section 2684 of title 10, United States Code. In no case may family housing units be acquired under this subsection through the exercise of eminent domain authority, and in no case may family housing units other than those authorized by this section be acquired in lieu of construction unless the acquisition of such units is hereafter specifically authorized by law. (c) Family housing units and mobile home facilities: National Guard Advisory Detachments, Alaska, three units, $137,000. Naval Facility, Centerville Beach, California, twenty-eight units, $1,509,000. Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, two hundred sixteen units, $9,396,000. Fort Ord, California, five hundred sixty units, $24,432,000, and fifty mobile home spaces, $690,000. Marine Corps Base, Twentynine Palms, California, one hundred units, $4,307,000. Fort Stewart, Georgia, one hundred and thirty-two units, $4,600,000. Naval Submarine Support Base, Kings Bay, Kingsland, Georgia, two hundred and fifty units, $11,505,000. Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, fifty mobile home spaces, $445,000. Fort Polk, Louisiana, one hundred and sixty units, $7,300,000. Naval Communications Unit, Cutler, Maine, twenty units, $1,355,000. Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada, seventy units, $2,820,000.

Secretary of HUD, consultation.

Notification to congressional committees.

Cost limitations;

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