An Act to authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard
PL 92-118 (H.R.5208), enacted 08/13/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-118-AUG. 13, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
Public Law 92-118 
'August 13, 1971 
[H. R. 5208] 
Coast Guard, 
Appropriation 
authorization; 
personnel 
strength. 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construc-
tion of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard, and to authorize 
the annual active duty personnel strength of the Coast Guard. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds are 
liereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1972 for the use 
of the Coast Guard as follows: 
VESSELS 
For procurement and increasing capability of vessels, $132,446,000. 
A. Procurement: 
(1) design of vessels. 
(2) one replacement polar icebreaker. 
(3) three high-endurance cutters. 
None of the vessels authorized herein shall be procured from other than 
shipyards and facilities within the United States. 
B. Increasing capability: 
(1) increase fuel capacity and improve habitability on high-
endurance cutters of the 
three-hundred-and-twenty-seven-foot 
class. 
(2) rehabilitate and improve selected buoy tenders. 
(3) modernize and improve wind class polar icebreakers. 
(.4) reweld hull and repair cutter (polar icebreaker) Glacier. 
(5) increase oceanographic capability of cutter Evergreen. 
(6) modernize communications capability in selected vessels. 
(7) replace radio teletypes in selected high-endurance vessels. 
(8) install water pollution control equipment in vessels. 
(9) install wmter pollution monitoring sensors in vessels. 
AIRCRAFT 
For procurement 
and extension of service life of 
aircraft, 
$41,574,000. 
AL. Procurement: 
(1) five long-range search aircraft. 
(2) six medium-range helicopters. 
(3) one administrative aircraft. 
B. Extension of service life: 
(1) repair outer wings on six HC-130 aircraft. 
(2) replace center wing box beam on three HC-130 aircraft. 
(3) reactivate six HU-16E aircraft. 
(4) install water pollution monitoring sensors in aircraft. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For establishment or development of installations and facilities by 
acquisition, construction, conversion, extension, or installation of 
permanent or temporary public works, including the preparation of 
sites and furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment for the 
following, $62,190,000. 
(1) Newbury 
port, Massachusetts: rebuild Merrimac River 
Station; 
(2) Gloucester, Massachusetts: rebuild station; 
(3) Marshfield, Massachusetts: construct barracks at radio 
station; 
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(-t) Barnegat, New Jersey: improve station facilities (phase 
H ) ; 
(5) Wildwood, New Jersey: construct barracks at eiectronics 
engineering center; 
(6) Yorktown, Virginia : construct barracks; 
(7) Portsmouth, Virginia: relocate water main; 
(8) Terminal Island, California: rebuild electronics rapair 
building; 
(9) Port Hueneme, California : relocate st^ition; 
(10) Portland, Oregon: relocate station; 
(11) Westport, Washington: rebuild station; 
(12) Honolulu, Hawaii: improve base facilities; 
(13) Honolulu, Hawaii: construct new radio station; 
(14) Boston, Massachusetts: improve base facilities (phase II) ; 
(15) New London, Connecticut: construct science teaching 
facility at academy; 
(16) Cape May, New Jersey: improve station facilities; 
(17) Curtis Bay, Maryland: modernize yard facilities ; 
(18) Omaha, Nebraska : improve facilities at moorings; 
(19) Miami, Florida : improve air station facilities; 
(20) San Francisco, California: improve air station facilities; 
(21) Guam, Marianas Islands: improve depot facilities; 
(22) Various locations: abate pollution from stations; 
(23) Various locations: transportable pollution control (oil 
recovery) equipment; 
(24) Various locations: transportable pollution control (oil 
slick containment) equipment; 
(25) Various loca;tions: pollution monitoring equipment for 
oti'shore stations; 
(26) Various locations: aids to navigation projects on selected 
waterways; 
(27) Various locations: automate light stations; 
(28) French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii: improve and modernize 
loran station; 
(29) Various locations: modernize and improve tropical Pacific 
loran stations; 
(30) Pal au Island: repair airstrip; 
(31) Various locations: develop and construct loran equipment; 
(32) Pacific islands: effect selected loran tower maintenance; 
(33) Various locations: public family quarters; 
(34) Various locations: advance planning, survey, design, and 
architectural services; project administration costs; acquire sites 
in connection with projects not otherwise authorized by law; 
(35) Various locations: develop and construct additional Har-
bor Advisory Radar and Marine Traffic Systems; 
(36) North Bend, Oregon: construct air station facilities. 
BRIDGE AI^TERATIONS 
For payment to bridge owners for the cost of alteration of railroad 
and public highway bridges to permit free navigation of the navigable 
waters of the United States, $3,000,000. 
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ANNUAL ACTIVE DUTY PERSONNEL STRENGTH 
For the fiscal year beginning July 1,1971, and ending June 30,1972, 
the average active duty personnel strength of the Coast Guard shall be 
38,284. If the Coast Guard Selected Eeserve program is not phased out 
as planned in the budget, the authorized active duty personnel strength 
is increased 567 men to 38,851; except when the President of the 
United States determines that the application of these ceilings veill 
seriously jeopardize the national security interests of the United States 
and informs the Congress of the basis of such determination. 
Approved August 13, 1971. 
August 13, 1971 
[S.2296] 
Public Law 92-119 
AN ACT 
To amend sections 107 and 709 of title 32, United States Code, relating to 
appropriations for the National Guard and to National Guard technicians, 
respectively. 
National Guard. 
Appropriations, 
availability. 
70A Stat. 599; 
81 Stat. 220. 
Technicians, 
ceiling increase. 
82 Stat. 755. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That (a) section 107 
of title 32, United States Code, is amended by— 
(1) striking out the catchline and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: 
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§ 107. Availability of appropriations"; 
(2) striking out all of subsection (a) ; 
(3) striking out "apportioned appropriations" in subsection (b) 
and inserting in lieu thereof "appropriations for the National 
Guard"; and 
(4) redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (a) 
and (b), respectively. 
(b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 1 of such title 
is amended by striking out 
"107. Apportionment of appropriations." 
and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"107. Availability of appropriations.". 
SEC. 2. Subsection (h) of section 709 of title 32, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows: 
"(h) In no event shall the number of technicians employed under this 
section at any one time exceed 53,100, except that the number of 
technicians so employed may not exceed 49,200 during the fiscal year 
beginning July 1,1971." 
Approved August 13, 1971 = 
August 13, 1971 
[H. R. 4263] 
Public Law 92-120 
AN ACT 
To add California-grown peaches as a commodity eligible for any form of 
promotion, including paid advertising, under a marketing order. 
California-grown 
peaches. 
Marketing 
orders, paid ad-
vertising, 
68 Stat. 906; 
84 Stat. 1357. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Vnited States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 8c(6) 
(I) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (as reenacted by the Agri-
cultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, and as subsequently 
amended (7 U.S.C. 608c(6) ( I ) ) , is hereby amended by inserting 
"California-grown 
peaches," 
immediately 
after 
"applicable 
to 
almonds,". 
Approved August 13, 1971.