Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1398

 95 STAT. 1372

PUBLIC LAW 97-99—DEC. 23, 1981 TITLE V—NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE AUTHORIZED CONTRIBUTION

SEC. 501. (a) The Secretary of Defense is authorized to incur obligations in amounts not to exceed $345,000,000 for the United States share of the cost of multilateral programs for the acquisition or construction of military facilities and installations (including international military headquarters) for the collective defense of the North Atlantic Treaty Area. O> Within thirty days after the end of each calendar-year quarter, t) the Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives a description of obligations incurred by the United States during the preceding quarter for the United States share of the cost of such multilateral programs. TITLE VI—MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING AND HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION TO CONSTRUCT OR ACQUIRE HOUSING

Notification to conmSttSs^

SEC. 601. (a) The Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary's designee, is authorized to construct or acquire sole interest in existing familv 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 Stat^ 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 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 Governmentowned land, or otherwise. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to acquire less than sole interest in existing family housing units in foreign countries when determined to be in the best interests of the Government. (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 the Secretary, or the Secreta^s 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:

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