An Act making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.
PL 93-194 (H.R.11459), enacted 12/20/1973

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PUBLIC LAW 93-194-DEC. 20, 1973 
[87 STAT. 
Public Law 93-194 
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December 20,1973 
A N A C T 
[H. R. 11459] 
Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense 
for the 
fiscal 
year ending June 30,1974, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^^^T'^A^°"" 
TJnited States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
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suHis ai'e appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
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wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for mili-
tary construction functions administered by the Department of 
Defense, and for other purposes, namely: 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tempo-
rary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities 
for the Anny as currently authorized in military public works or mili-
. tary construction Acts, and in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, United 
States Code, $578,120,000, to remain available until expended. 
72 Stat. 1459; 
84 Stat. 1224. 
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tem-
porary or permanent public works, naval installations, and facilities 
for the Navy as currently authorized in military public works or mili-
tary construction Acts, and in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, United 
States Code, including personnel in the Naval Facilities Engineering 
Command and other personal services necessary for the purposes of 
this appropriation, $609,292,000, to remain available until expended. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE 
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For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tem-
porary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities 
for the Air Force as currently authorized in military public works or 
military construction Acts, and in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, 
United States Code, $247,277,000, to remain available until expended. 
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, DEFENSE AGENCIES 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tem-
porary or permanent public works, installations, and facilities for 
activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the 
military departments and the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency), 
as currently authorized in military public works or military construc-
tion Acts, and in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, United States 
Code, to remain available until expended, not to exceed $20,000,000 
to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Research, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation, Defense Agencies" as determined by the 
Secretary of Defense: Provided^ That such amounts of this appro-
priation as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense may be 
transferred to such appropriations of the Department of Defense 
available for military construction as he may designate. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and adrtiinistration of the Army 
National Guard as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United 
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States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, 
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$35,200,000, to remain available until expended. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and con-
version of facilities for the training and administration of the Air 
National Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized by chapter 
133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces 
Facilities Acts, $20,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and con-
version of facilities for the training and administration of the Army 
Reserve as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, 
as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, $40,700,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVAL RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and con-
version of facilities for the training and administration of the reserve 
components of the Navy and Marine Corps as authorized by chapter 
133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, and the Reserve 
Forces Facilities Acts, $22,900,000, to remain available until expended. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and con-
version of facilities for the training and administration of the Air 
Force Reserve as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States 
Code, as amended, and the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, $10,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
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FAMILY HOUSING, DEFENSE 
For expenses of family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, 
Air Force, and Defense agencies, for construction, including acquisi-
tion, replacement, addition, expansion, extension and alteration and 
for operation, maintenance, and debt payment, including leasing, 
minor construction, principal and interest charges, and insurance pre-
miums, as authorized by law, $1,188,539,000, to be obligated and 
expended in the Family Housing Management Account established 
pursuant to section 501 (a) of Public Law 87-664, in not to exceed the 
following amounts: 
For the Army: 
Construction, $179,320,000; 
For the Navy and Marine Corps: 
Construction, $97,947,000; 
For the Air Force: 
Construction, $83,939,000; 
For Defense agencies: 
Construction, $540,000; 
For Department of Defense: 
Debt payment, $159,177,000; 
Operation, maintenance, $667,616,000. 
Provided, That the amounts provided under this head for construc-
tion and for debt payment shall remain available until expended. 
76 Stat. 236. 
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STAT. 
80 Stat. 1290; 
86 Stat. 1150. 
42 u s e 3374. 
Prior appro-
priations. 
Contracts, 
Construction 
costs, expedi-
tion. 
Service facili-
ties. 
Motor vehicles 
hire. 
Access roads, 
construction. 
72 Stat. 908. 
New bases. 
Land purchases 
or easements. 
Foreign 
projects. 
HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE FUND, DEFENSE 
For use in the Homeowners Assistance Fund established pursuant 
to section 1013(d) of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan 
Development Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-754, as amended), 
$7,000,000, 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
construction in prior years are hereby made available for construc-
tion authorized for each such department by the authorizations enacted 
into law during the first session of the Ninety-third Congress. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for 
work, where cost estimates exceed $25,000, to be performed within 
the United States, except Alaska, without the specific approval in 
writing of the Secretary of Defense setting forth the reasons 
therefor. 
SEC. 103. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
expended for additional costs involved in expediting construction 
unless the Secretary of Defense certifies such costs to be necessary 
to protect the national interest and establishes a reasonable comple-
tion date for each project, taking into consideration the urgency of 
the requirement, the type and location of the project, the climatic and 
seasonal conditions affecting the construction, and the application 
of economical construction practices. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, 
laundry, or drycleaning facility in the United States, its territories, 
or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify, 
in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that tlie services to be fur-
nished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources 
at reasonable rates. 
SEC. 105. Funds herein appropriated to the Department of Defense 
for construction shall be available for hire of passenger motor 
vehicles. 
SEC. 106. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
construction may be used for advances to the Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation, for the construction 
of access roads as authorized by section 210 of title 23, United States 
Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as important 
to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
to begin construction of new bases inside the continental United 
States for which specific appropriations have not been made. 
SEC. 108. No part of the funds provided in this Act shall be used 
for purchase of land or land easements in excess of 100 per centum 
of the value as determined by the Corps of Engineers or the Naval 
Facilities Engineering Command, except: (a) where there is a deter-
mination of value by a Federal court, or (b) purchases negotiated by 
the Attorney General or his designee, or (c) where the estimated 
value is less than $25,000, or (d) as otherwise determined by the 
Secretary of Defense to be in the public interest. 
SEC. 109. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
to make payments under contracts for any project in a foreign country 
unless the Secretary of Defense or his designee, after consultation with 
the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee, certifies to the Congress 
that the use, by purchase from the Treasury, of currencies of such 
country acquired pursuant to law is not feasible for the purpose, stating 
the reason therefor. 
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SEC. 110. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to iij^ft^t^ons°"^'"^ 
(1) acquire land, (2) provide for site preparation, or (3) install util-
ities for any family housing, except housing for which funds have been 
made available in annual military construction appropriation Acts. 
This Act may be cited as the "Military Construction Appropriation 
short title. 
Act, 1974". 
Approved December 20, 1973. 
Public Law 93-195 
A N A C T 
December 20, 1973 
To determine the rights and interests of the Choctaw Nation, the Chickasaw 
[H. R. 5089] 
Nation, and the Cherokee Nation in and to the bed of the Arkansas River below 
the Canadian Fork and to the eastern boundary of Oklahoma. 
Choctaw-
Chickasaw-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Choctaw-Chickasaw-Cherokee Boundary Dispute Act". Cherokee Bound-
SEC. 2. The consent of the United States is hereby given to the Choc- ^'^ Dispute Act. 
taw Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, and the Cherokee Nation to bring 
suit against each other to quiet the title in and to the bed of the Arkan-
sas River below the Canadian Fork and to the eastern boundary of 
Oklahoma. 
SEC. 3. Any action commenced pursuant to section 2 of this Act shall 
Ju^^diction. 
be heard and determined by a Federal court of three judges selected 
in the manner provided by law, sitting in the United States District 
Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in accordance with the 
provisions of section 4 of this Act. Any party may appeal directly 
to the Supreme Court of the United States from the final determina-
tion by such three-judge district court. 
SEC. 4. It is hereby declared to be the intent and the objective of the ^ re"men^"' 
Congress that the relative rights and interests of said tribes making 
claims against each other in and to the surface and the subsurface of 
the lands identified in section 2 of this Act shall be judicially deter-
mined in accordance with principles of law and equity, including a 
consistent award or awards or release or releases to the Choctaw 
Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, and the Cherokee Nation of such bonus 
sums, rentals, and royalties, or other moneys paid or received on 
account of leasing of any portion of such lands. In furtherance of the 
accomplishment of this intent and the attainment of this objective, the 
parties are hereby authorized to enter into a settlement agreement in 
which provision may be made for a recognition in perpetuity of their 
relative rights to use and to enjoy the surface and the subsurface of the 
lands identified in section 2 of this Act, including the division of any 
and all of such bonus sums, rentals, and royalties, or other moneys paid 
or received on account of the leasing of any portion of said lands for 
any purpose or purposes. Such settlement agreement may be embodied 
in and be made a part of anj^ decree of the court, which thereupon 
shall be final and conclusive with respect to the rights and interests of 
the parties. 
SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to be a congressional 
determination of the merits of the conflicting tribal claims with respect 
to the lands that are the subject of this Act. 
Approved December 20, 1973. 
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