An Act to authorize certain construction at military and naval installations, and for the Alaska Communication System, and for other purposes
PL 83-209 (S.2491), enacted 08/07/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 209-AUG. 7, 1953 
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Public Law 209 
CHAPTER 342 
August 7, 1953 
AN ACT 
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To authorize certain construction at military and naval installations, and for 
the Alaska Communication System, and for other purposes. 
an'd^^AUsta" co^ 
^^ i-t enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives 
of the 
Si'Salfltf^nlr'*^'" United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
C ons truction, 
etc. 
TITLE I 
Army. 
SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to estab-
lish or develop military installations and facilities by the construction, 
conversion, installation, or equipment of temporary or permanent 
public works, including buildings, facilities, appurtenances, and 
utilities, as follows: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
TECHNICAL SERVICES FACILITIES 
(Ordnance Corps) 
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: Research and development 
facilities, $738,000. 
Letterkenny Ordnance Depot, Pennsylvania: Storage and opera-
tional facilities, $783,000. 
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey: Operational facilities, and utilities, 
$1,531,000. 
Pueblo Ordnance Depot, Colorado: Storage and operational facil-
ities, $563,000. 
Red River Arsenal, Texas: Operational facility and utilities, 
$1,808,000. 
Savanna Ordnance Depot, Illinois: Operational and storage facil-
ities, $572,000. 
Seneca Ordnance Depot, New York: Storage and operational facil-
ities, $312,000. 
Sierra Ordnance Depot, California: Storage and operational facil-
ities, $772,000. 
Watervliet Arsenal, New York: Operational facilities, $584,000. 
White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico: Research and develop-
ment facilities, and utilities, $2,917,000. 
(Transportation Corps) 
Kings Bay Ammunition Loading Terminal, Georgia : Ammunition 
loading terminal, including acquisition of land, $21,657,000. 
FIELD FORCE FACILITIES 
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(First Army Area) 
Fort Wadsworth, New York: Maintenance facility, $342,000. 
(Second Army Area) 
Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: Training building, $95,000. 
Camp Perry, Ohio: Training facility, $354,000. 
(Third Army Area) 
Fort Benning, Georgia : Maintenance facility and utilities, $445,000. 
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(Fourth Army Area) 
Fort Bliss, Texas: Troop housing, troop support, covered storage, 
and land acquisition, $8,166,000. 
Camp Polk, Louisiana: Land acquisition, $67,000. 
(Fifth Army Area) 
AAA firing range. Camp Claybanks, Michigan: Troop housing, 
troop support, administrative, maintenance, medical, training facili-
ties, ammunition storage, and utilities, $782,000. 
Camp Haven, Wisconsin: Land acquisition, $56,000. 
(Sixth Army Area) 
Camp Irwin, California: Maintenance facilities, $434,000. 
(Special Weapons Project) 
Construction at classified installations, $1,025,000. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
(Alaskan Area) 
AAA firing range, Turnagain Arm, Alaska: Land acquisition and 
training facilities, $345,000. 
Kenai, Alaska: Troop housing, family housing, and utilities, 
$737,000. _ 
Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska: Maintenance facilities, and utilities, 
$2,054,000. 
Fort Richardson, Alaska: Utilities, $1,665,000. 
(Far East Command Area) 
Okinawa: Troop housing, troop support, family housing, medical 
facility, covered storage, and utilities, $15,759,000. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to estab- staAaUotis and tZ 
lish or develop classified military installations and facilities by the ciiities. 
acquisition of land and the construction, conversion, installation, or 
equipment of temporary or permanent public works, including build-
ings, facilities, appurtenances, and utilities in a total amount of 
$69,108,000. 
TITLE I I 
SEC. 201. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish 
^"^y-
or develop military installations and facilities by the construction, 
conversion, installation, or equipment of temporary or permanent 
public works, including buildings, facilities, appurtenances, and 
utilities, as follows: 
CONTINENTAL. UNITED STATES 
SHIPYARD F A C I L I T I E S 
Naval shipyard, Bremerton, Washington: Crane tracks for dry-
dock, $1,066,000. 
David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland: Test tunnel, 
$800,000. 
Naval shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia: Crane tracks for drydock, 
$975,000. 
Naval boiler and turbine laboratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 
Boiler test facilities, $1,431,000. 
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Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, New York: United 
States Navy reactor components test facility, $968,000. 
FLEET FACILITIES 
Naval base, Newport, Rhode Island: 
Fleet berthing facility, 
$4,000,000. 
AVIATION FACILITIES 
Naval air station, Alameda, California: 
Jet engine test cells, 
$1,700,000. 
Alice, Texas: Land acquisition and airfield pavements, $2,148,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station, Barin Field, Alabama: Land acquisi-
tion, avigation easements, and airfield facilities at outlying field, 
western numbered 3, $226,000. 
Naval air station, Brunswick, Maine: Land acquisition, communica-
tion facilities, airfield pavements, utilities, heating plant, and ordnance 
facilities, $5,969,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station, Cabaniss Field, Texas: Operational 
facilities, training facilities, fuel storage and distribution facilities, 
communication facilities, and utilities, $560,000. 
David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland: Wind tunnel, 
$665,000. 
Naval air station, Cecil Field, Florida: Land acquisition, airfield 
pavements, fuel dispensing facilities, airfield lighting facilities, per-
sonnel facilities, ordnance facilities, and utilities, $3,364,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station. Chase Field Texas: Airfield pave-
ments, fuel dispensing facilities, and aircraft maintenance facilities, 
$1,640,000. 
Naval air station. Corpus Christi, Texas: Fuel storage, $510,000, 
Naval auxiliary landing field, Fallon, Nevada: Airfield pavements, 
operational facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, personnel facili-
ties, and utilities, $5,211,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station, Kingsville, Texas: Airfield pavements, 
fuel dispensing facilities, training facilities, and utilities, $1,480,000. 
Naval air station, Miramar, California: Airfield lighting facilities 
and communication facilities, $1,251,000. 
Naval air station, Norfolk, Virginia: Jet engine test cells, $1,850,000. 
Naval air station, Oceana, Virginia: Airfield pavements, aircraft 
maintenance facilities, storage facilities, communication facilities, air-
field lighting facilities, and utilities, $3,927,000. 
Naval air station, Pensacola, Florida: Operational facilities, roads 
and utilities, and acquisition of land and avigation easements and 
clearance of approach zones of Outlying Field, Magnolia, $849,000. 
Naval air station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island: Jet engine test cells, 
$2,300,000. 
Naval air station, San Diego, California: Jet engine test cells, 
$1,700,000. 
Naval air turbine test station, Trenton, New Jersey: Test and devel-
opment facilities, $3,398,000. 
Naval air station, Wliidbey Island, Washington: Aircraft mainte-
nance facilities, $1,200,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station. Whiting Field, Florida: Land acquisi-
tion and airfield facilities at outlying field, Blackwater "A", $197,000. 
SUPPLY FACILITIES 
Naval supply depot, Newport, Rhode Island: Storage and cargo 
handling facilities, $2,600,000. 
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Naval supply depot, San Diego, California: Cold storage facilities, 
$350,000. 
MARINE CORPS FACILITIES 
Marine Corps depot of supplies, Albany, Georgia: Depot facilities, 
$5,000,000. 
Marine Corps depot of supplies, San Francisco, California (Barstow 
Annex, Barstow, California) : Troop housing, $1,008,000. 
Marine Corps schools, Quantico, Virginia: Training facilities, 
$163,000. 
Marine Corps recruit depot, San Diego, California: Cold storage 
facilities, $500,000. 
ORDNANCE FACILITIES 
Naval ordnance unit. Key West, Florida: Test facilities, $1,000,000. 
Naval ammunition depot, McAlester, Oklahoma: Ordnance facili-
ties, $809,936. 
Naval ammunition depot, Shumaker, Arkansas: Ordnance facili-
ties, $663,194. 
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES 
Naval radio station, Winter Harbor, Maine: Communication 
facilities, $208,000. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
FLEET FACILITIES 
Naval station, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands: 
Power plant, 
$3,200,000. 
AVIATION FACILITIES 
Naval air facilities, Cubi Point, Philippine Islands: Communica-
tion facilities, operational facilities, administrative facilities, dredg-
ing, excavation and fill, riprap and sheet piling, personnel facilities, 
$5,654,000. 
Naval air station, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands: Cold storage 
facilities, fuel storage facilities and personnel facilities, $2,159,000. 
SUPPLY FACILITIES 
Naval station, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands: Fuel storage facili-
ties, including pipeline easements, $4,700,000. 
MEDICAL FACILITIES 
Naval hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Hospital 
facilities, 
$2,310,000. 
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES 
Naval communication station, Philippine Islands: Communication 
facilities, $6,232,000. 
SEC. 202. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to ^^__^^ 
establish or develop classified military installations and facilities by cifulVa 
the acq^uisition of land and the construction, conversion, installation, 
or equipment of temporary or permanent public works, including 
buildings, facilities, appurtenances, and utilities, in a total amount of 
$1,069,000. 
Clas s if i e d in-
stallations and fa-
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TITLE I I I 
Air Force. 
§^0. 301. The Secretary of the Air Force is hereby authorized to 
establish or develop military installations and facilities by the con-
struction, conversion, installation, or equipment of temporary or 
permanent public works, including buildings, facilities, appurtenances, 
and utilities, as follows: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND 
Abilene Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas: Airfield pavements, navi-
gational aids facilities, operational facilities, troop housing and mess-
ing facilities, administrative and community facilities, utilities, land 
acquisition, and storage facilities, $12,228,000. 
Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, Louisiana: Airfield pave-
ments, navigational aids facilities, $4,266,000. 
Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas: Airfield pavements and 
training facilities, $1,437,000. 
Blytheville Municipal Airport, Blytheville, Arkansas: Airfield pave-
ments, liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, navigational aids 
and airfield lighting facilities, troop housing and messing facilities, 
utilities, and medical facilities, $8,888,000. 
Bunker Hill Naval Air Station, Peru, Indiana: Airfield pavements, 
liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, communications and navi-
gational aids facilities, operational facilities, troop housing and mess-
ing facilities, administrative and community facilities, utilities, land 
acquisition, medical facilities, and storage facilities, $11,107,000. 
Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas: Liquid-fuel storage 
and dispensing facilities, operational facilities, aircraft maintenance 
facilities, and storage facilities, $480,000. 
Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California: Airfield pavements, air-
craft maintenance facilities, utilities, and storage facilities, $1,370,000. 
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona: Airfield pave-
ments, navigational aids facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, and 
storage facilities, $1,431,000. 
Dow Air Force Base, Bangor, Maine: Airfield pavements, communi-
cations facilities, operational facilities, training facilities, and utilities, 
$2,144,000. 
iEglin Air Field, Hurlburt, Florida: Airfield pavements, naviga-
tional aids and airfield lighting facilities, and aircraft maintenance 
facilities, $4,812,000. 
Ellsworth Air Force Base, Eapid City, South Dakota: Aircraft 
maintenance facilities, administrative and community facilities, land 
acquisition, utilities, and storage facilities, $1,766,000. 
Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas: Airfield pavements, admin-
istrative and community facilities, and land acquisition, $4,180,000. 
Great Falls Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana: Airfield pave-
ments, aircraft maintenance facilities, utilities, and storage facilities, 
$425,000. 
Homestead Air Force Base, Homestead, Florida: Airfield pave-
ments, liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, communications 
and navigational aids facilities, troop housing and messing facilities, 
utilities, and land acquisition, $10,356,000. 
Lake Charles Air Force Base, Lake Charles, Louisiana: Land acqui-
sition and training facilities, $265,000. 
Limestone Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine: Aircraft maintenance 
facilities, troop housing and messing facilities, and utilities, $851,000. 
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Lincoln Air Force Base, Lincoln, Nebraska: Airfield pavements, 
communications facilities, operational facilities, training facilities, 
messing facilities, adminstrative and community facilities, utilities, 
land acquisition, medical facilities, and shops, $8,825,000. 
Little Kock Air Force Base, Little Rock, Arkansas: Airfield pave-
ments, communications and navigational aids facilities, operational 
facilities, troop housing and messing facilities, utilities, land acquisi-
tion, and storage facilities, $11,311,000. 
March Air Force Base, Riverside, California: Airfield pavements, 
airfield lighting facilities, training facilities, and land acquisition, 
$965,000. 
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain Home, Idaho: Airfield 
pavements, aircraft maintenance facilities, training facilities, and 
utilities, $3,286,000. 
Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska: Airfield pavements, 
navigational aids and airfield lighting facilities, utilities, and land 
acquisition, $6,730,000. 
Plattsburg Barracks, Plattsburg, New York: Airfield pavements, 
liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, troop housing and mess-
ing facilities, utilities, land acquisition, and storage facilities, $9,534,-
000. 
Sedalia Air Force Base, Knobnoster, Missouri: Airfield pavements, 
navigational aids and airfield lighting facilities, operational facilities, 
training facilities, land acquisition, and utilities, $4,663,000. 
Smoky Hill Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas: Airfield pavements, 
operational facilities, training facilities, and land acquisition, $5,-
631,000. 
Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California: Storage facilities, 
$37,000. 
Turner Air Force Base, Albany, Georgia: Training facilities, 
$221,000. 
Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mexico: Storage facilities, 
$33,000. 
Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts: Storage 
facilities, $37,000. 
AIR DEFENSE COMMAND 
Burlington Municipal Airport, Burlington, Vermont: 
Storage 
facilities, $37,000. 
Duluth Municipal Airport, Duluth, Minnesota: Land acquisition, 
storage facilities, and medical facilities, $219,000. 
Geiger Field, Spokane, Washington: Administrative and com-
munity facilities, utilities, and storage facilities, $284,000. 
Grandview Air Force Base, Kansas City, Missouri: Administrative 
and community facilities, utilities, and storage facilities, $314,000. 
Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania: 
Land 
acquisition, medical facilities, and storage facilities, $130,000. 
Hamilton Air Force Base, San Rafael, California: Storage facili-
ties, $162,000. 
Kinross Air Force Base, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan: Land 
acquisition, medical facilities, and storage facilities, $132,000. 
McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Washington: Storage facilities, 
$37,000. 
McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee: Airfield pavements, 
land acquisition, and storage facilities, $146,000. 
Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Storage 
facilities, $162,000. 
New Castle County Airport, Wilmington, Delaware: Land acquisi-
tion, and storage facilities, $205,000. 
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Niagara Falls Municipal Airport, Niagara Falls, New York: Land 
acquisition, medical facilities, and storage facilities, $95,000. 
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois: Storage facilities, 
$37,000. 
Otis Air Force Base, Falmouth, Massachusetts: Airfield pavements, 
liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, navigational aids facili-
ties, operational facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, land acquisi-
tion, storage facilities, and shops, $5,019,000. 
Oxnard Air Force Base, Oxnard, California: Land acquisition, and 
storage facilities, $265,000. 
Paine Field, Everett, Washington: Land acquisition, and storage 
facilities, $189,000. 
Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon: Land acquisi-
tion, and storage facilities, $166,000. 
Presque Isle Air Force Base, Presque Isle, Maine: Communications 
facilities, administrative and community facilities, utilities, and 
storage facilities, $434,000. 
Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan: Land acquisi-
tion and storage facilities, $43,000. 
Sioux City Municipal Airport, Sioux City, Iowa: Communications 
and navigational aids facilities, and storage facilities, $97,000. 
Stewart Air Force Base, Newbur^h, New York: Airfield pave-
ments, navigational aids and airfield lighting facilities, utilities, land 
acquisition, and storage facilities, $971,000. 
Suffolk County Air Force Base, Westhampton, New York: Storage 
facilities, $37,000. 
Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin: Operational facilities, adminis-
trative and community facilities, utilities, land acquisition, and storage 
facilities, $831,000. 
Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, Michigan: Storage facilities, 
$162,000. 
Youngstown Municipal Airport, Youngstown, Ohio: Training facil-
ities, land acquisition, and storage facilities, $184,000. 
Yuma County Airport, Yuma, Arizona: Airfield pavements, liquid-
fuel storage and dispensing facilities communications and airfield 
lighting facilities, messing facilities, administrative and community 
facilities, utilities, land acquisition, medical facilities, storage facili-
ties, and shop, $2,818,000. 
TACTICAL AIR COMMAND 
Alexandria Air Force Base, Alexandria, Louisiana: Airfield pave-
ments, navigational aids facilities, operational facilities, aircraft 
maintenance facilities, administrative and community facilities, utili-
ties, land acquisition, and storage facilities, $1,237,000. 
Charleston Municipal Airport, Charleston, South Carolina: Airfield 
pavements, operational facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, stor-
age facilities, and shops, $954,000. 
Clovis Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mexico: Airfield pavements, 
$2,531,000. 
Foster Air Force Base, Victoria, Texas: Administrative and com-
munity facilities, land acquisition, and storage facilities, $67,000. 
George Air Force Base, Victorville, California: Airfield pavements, 
liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, airfield lighting facilities, 
training facilities, and storage facilities, $1,424,000. 
Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia: Airfield pavements, 
navigational aids facilities, and storage facilities, $240,000. 
Larson Air Force Base, Moses Lake, Washington: Navigational aids 
facilities, and storage facilities, $61,000. 
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Moore Airfield, Mission, Texas: Airfield pavements, liquid-fuel stor-
age and dispensing facilities, communications and navigational aids 
facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, administrative and com-
munity facilities, utilities, land acquisition, and storage facilities, 
$1,266,000. 
Pope Air Force Base, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Land acquisi-
tion, $28,000. 
AIR TRAINING 
COMMAND 
Bryan Air Force Base, Bryan, Texas: Land acquisition, $44,000. 
Craig Air Force Base, Selma, Alabama: Airfield pavements, troop 
housing and messing facilities, and land acquisition, $1,595,000. 
Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas: Airfield pavements, 
navigational aids and airfield lighting facilities, operational facilities, 
and land acquisition, $2,221,000. 
Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas: Airfield pave-
ments, utilities, and land acquisition, $142,000. 
Greenville Air Force Base, Greenville, Mississippi: Airfield pave-
ments, liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, operational facili-
ties, aircraft maintenance facilities, land acquisition, and storage 
facilities, $1,869,000. 
Harlingen Air Force Base, Harlingen, Texas: Airfield pavements 
and utilities, $163,000. 
James Connally Air Force Base, Waco, Texas: Airfield lighting 
facilities, and land acquisition, $117,000. 
Laredo Air Force Base, Laredo, Texas: Land acquisition, $9,000. 
Laughlin Air Force Base, Del Rio, Texas: Airfield pavements, 
administrative and community facilities, utilities, land acquisition, 
and storage facilities, $578,000. 
Luke Air Force Base, Phoenix, Arizona: Airfield pavements, air-
craft maintennace facilities, utilities, and land acquisition, $1,057,000. 
Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, California: Airfield pave-
ments, liquid fuel storage and dispensing facilities, airfield lighting 
facilities, operational facilities, messing facilities, utilities, land 
acquisition, and storage facilities, $1,847,000, 
Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, Georgia: Airfield pavements, 
navigational aids facilities, operational facilities, utilities, and land 
acquisition, $599,000. 
Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada: Airfield pavements, 
messing facilities, utilities, land acquisition, and shops, $819,000. 
Perrin Air Force Base, Sherman, Texas: Liquid-fuel storage and 
dispensing facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, troop housing 
and messing facilities, utilities, land acquisition, and 
storage 
facilities, $1,355,000. 
Pinecastle Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida: Airfield pavements, 
navigational aids facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, training 
facilities, troop housing and messing facilities, utilities, and land 
acquisition, $2,466,000. 
Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: Liquid-fuel stor-
age and dispensing facilities, airfield lighting facilities, administra-
tive and community facilities, utilities, land acquisition, and storage 
facilities, $2,026,000. 
Reese Air Force Base, Lubbock, Texas: Administrative and com-
munity facilities, $50,000. 
Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, Illinois: Liquid-fuel storage and 
dispensing facilities, navigational aids facilities, operational facili-
ties, land acquisition, and storage facilities, $373,000. 
Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida: Airfield pave-
ments, liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, navigational aids 
facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, and utilities, $844,000. 
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Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma: Airfield pavements, air-
field lighting facilities, and land acquisition, $1,754,000. 
Webb Air Force Base, Big Springs, Texas: Airfield pavements, 
airfield lighting facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, utilities, and 
land acquisition, $578,000, 
Wichita Municipal Airport, Wichita, Kansas: Airfield pavements, 
liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, navigational aids facili-
ties, aircraft maintenance facilities, troop housing facilities, utilities, 
and storage facilities, $3,245,000. 
AIR MATERIEL COMMAND 
Brookley Air Force Base, Mobile, Alabama: Aircraft maintenance 
facilities, utilities, and land acquisition, $3,830,000. 
Air Force Depot at undetermined site in northeastern United States, 
$747,000. 
Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: Aircraft maintenance 
facilities, $216,000. 
McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento, California: Airfield pave-
ments, liquid-fuel storage and dispensing facilities, communications 
and airfield lighting facilities, operational facilities, aircraft mainte-
nance facilities, and land acquisition, $5,638,000. 
Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California: Airfield pave-
ments, airfield lighting facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, and 
land acquisition, $940,000. 
Olmsted Air Force Base, Middletown, Pennsylvania: 
Liquid-fuel 
storage and dispensing facilities, aircraft maintenance facilities, 
utilities, research, development and test facilities, and storage facili-
ties, $5,594,000. 
Robins Air Base, Macon, Georgia: Aircraft maintenance facilities, 
$162,000. 
Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Airfield pave-
ments, and land acquisition, $4,405,000. 
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio: Communications 
and navigational aids facilities, operational facilities, administrative 
and community facilities, utilities, land acquisition, research, develop-
ment and test facilities, and storage facilities, $4,016,000. 
MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT 
Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Maryland: Administra-
tive and community facilities, utilities, and storage facilities, $299,000. 
Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware: Airfield pavements, liquid-
fuel storage and dispensing facilities, communications, navigational 
aids and airfield lighting facilities, operational facilities, aircraft 
maintenance facilities, troop housing facilities, administrative and 
community facilities, utilities, land acquisition, medical facilities, 
storage facilities, and shops, $19,687,000. 
McGuire Air Force Base, Wrightstown, New Jersey: Airfield pave-
ments, communications and navigational aids facilities, aircraft main-
tenance facilities, utilities, land acquisition, storage facilities, and 
shops, $5,282,000. 
Orlando Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida: Land acquisition, 
$330,000. 
Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, Florida: 
Land acquisition, $20,000. 
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
COMMAND 
Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tullahoma, Tennessee: 
Research, development and test facilities, $10,000,000. 
Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc, California: Liquid-fuel storage 
and dispensing facilities, and aircraft maintenance facilities, $1,430.-
000. 
GrifRss Air Force Base, Rome, New York: Operational facilities, 
land acquisition, and storage facilities, $452,000. 
HoUoman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico: Airfield pave-
ments, $4,693,000. 
Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Storage facili-
ties, $33,000. 
Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts: Storage facil-
ities, $37,000. 
Patrick Air Force Base, Cocoa, Florida: Airfield pavements, liquid-
fuel storage and dispensing facilities, communications and naviga-
tional aids facilities, messing facilities, utilities, research, development 
and test facilities, medical facilities, storage facilities, and shops, 
$4,939,000. 
AIR PROVING GROUND 
Eglin Air Force Base, Valparaiso, Florida: Airfield pavements, air-
craft maintenance facilities, research, development, and test facilities, 
$3,755,000. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Conve y a n c e of 
land. 
ALASKAN AIR COMMAND 
Aniak area, Alaska: Operational facilities, $1,000,000. 
Williams Field, Fort Yukon, Alaska: Operational 
facilities, 
$1,000,000. 
FAR EAST AIR FORCES 
Headquarters Far East Air Logistic Force: Utilities, $242,000. 
SEC. 302. The Secretary of the Air Force is hereby authorized to and"^"^*^i^°"ysi 
establish or develop military installations and facilities for aircraft tele-
control and warning system by the acquisition of land and the con-
struction, conversion, installation, or equipment of temporary or per-
manent public works, including buildings, facilities, appurtenances, 
and utilities in the total amount of $25,875,000. 
SEC. 303. The Secretary of the Air Force, subject to such terms and 
conditions as he may deem advisable, is hereby authorized to convey 
to the State of California and to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 
Railway Company, or its affiliates, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States of America in and to certain tracts or parcels of land, 
excepting improvements thereon, containing approximately forty-one 
and sixty-eight one-hundredths acres and eight and sixty-four one-
hundredths acres, respectively, and more particularly described and 
delineated on map identified as drawing numbered 247-M-3, dated 
June 1952, on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, United States 
Army, in consideration of the conveyance by the State of California 
and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, or its 
affiliates, without cost to the United States of America, of certain 
other parcels of land containing approximately forty-one and sixty-
eight one-hundredths acres and eight and six hundred forty-eight 
one-thousandths acres, respectively, also more particularly described 
and delineated on aforesaid map. 
SEC. 304. The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to construct 
emergency flood protection works for Luke Air Force Base, the Litcli-
Emergency flood 
protection works. 
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field Park naval air facility, and adjacent areas near Phoenix, Mari-
copa County, Arizona, in the tota^l amount of $2,873,000: Provided^ 
That local interests shall furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secre-
tary of the Air Force that they will (1) pay for the costs of highway 
and utility relocations and provide lands, easements, and rights-of-
way; (2) maintain and operate flood control works in accordance with 
regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force; (3) 
hold and save the United States free from all claims for damages 
arising from the construction and operation of the said flood protec-
tion works; and (4) adjust all water rights claims resulting from 
construction, operation, and maintenance of the improvements. 
TITLE IV 
A l a s k a 
C o m -
munication System. 
Deletions. 
S h e e p Mountain 
Comm u n i c a t i o n 
System site. 
SEC. 401. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to estab-
lish or develop installations and facilities by the construction, installa-
tion, or equipment of temporary or permanent public works, including 
buildings, facilities, appurtenances, and utilities, at stations of the 
Alaska Communication System at the following locations: 
Big Delta, Alaska: Family quarters, troop housing, and utilities, 
$91,200. 
Cathedral Bluffs (Tok Junction), Alaska: Family quarters, troop 
housing, and utilities, $436,300. 
Gulkana, Alaska: Family quarters, troop housing, and utilities, 
$232,000. 
Haines, Alaska: Family quarters and utilities, $69,400. 
Harding Lake, Alaska: Security fence, $8,500. 
Johnson River, Alaska: Security fence, $8,500. 
Kodiak, Alaska: Family quarters, troop housing, operational build-
ings, utilities, and security fences, $349,100. 
Northway, Alaska: Family quarters, troop housing, and utilities, 
$94,800. 
Palmer-Tok Junction, Alaska: Line maintenance buildings and 
utilities, $115,000. 
SEC. 402. (a) Section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the 
Secretary of the Army to proceed with construction at stations of the 
Alaska Communication System, approved October 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 
934), is hereby amended by deleting the following items: 
(1) Adak, Aleutian Islands: Area utilities for use jointly with the 
Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Navy, 
$175,000. 
(2) Cape Fanshaw, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, 
and utilities, $175,000. 
(3) Eielson Field, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, 
garages, and utilities, $307,255. 
(4) Mile 33, Alaska: Operational building and utilities, $46,000. 
(5) Mitchell Point, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, 
and utilities, $175,000. 
(6) Narrow Point, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, 
and utilities, $175,000. 
(7) Point Agassiz, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, 
and utilities, $175,000. 
(8) Thane, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and 
utilities, $175,000. 
(b) Section 2 of such Act is amended by deleting therefrom the 
figures "$7,663,212" and inserting in lieu thereof "$7,664,757". 
SEC. 403. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to transfer to 
the Department of the Army, without reimbursement, all of the im-
provements, facilities, and personal property at the Sheep Mountain 
Communication System site, Third Judicial Division, Alaska. 
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TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are 
respectively authorized to proceed with the establishment or develop-
ment of military installations and facilities as authorized by titles 
I, II, I I I and IV of this Act without regard to the provisions of 
sections 1136, 3648, and 3734, as respectively amended, of the Revised 
Statutes, and prior to approval of title to underlying land, as pro-
vided by section 355, as amended, of the Revised Statutes. The 
authority to establish or develop military installations and facilities 
shall include, in respect of those installations as to which the acquisi-
tion of land is specified in titles I, II, and I I I of this Act, authority 
to acquire lands and rights and interests thereto or therein, including 
the temporary use thereof, by donation, purchase, exchange of Govern-
ment-owned lands, or otherwise. 
SEC. 502. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
of money as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act, 
but not to exceed— 
(1) for public works authorized by title I : Inside continental 
United States, $44,003,000; outside continental United States, 
$20,560,000; classified facilities, $69,108,000; or a total of $133,-
671,000. 
(2) for public works authorized by title I I : Inside continental 
United States, $61,687,130; outside continental United States, 
$24,255,000; classified facilities, $1,069,000; or a total of $87.-
011,130. 
(3) for public works authorized by title I I I : Inside continental 
United States, $241,392,000; outside continental United States, 
$2,242,000; aircraft 
control and warning system 
facilities, 
$25,875,000; or a total of $269,509,000; and 
(4) for public works authorized by title IV; a total of $1,404,800. 
SEC. 503. Any of the approximate costs enumerated in titles I, II, 
III, and IV of this Act may, in the discretion of the Secretary con-
cerned, be varied upward 5 per centum in the case of projects within 
continental United States and 10 per centum in the case of projects 
outside continental United States, but the total cost of all work so 
enumerated under each of such titles shall not exceed the total of all 
amounts specified in respect of such title. 
SEC. 504. No family quarters shall be constructed under the author-
ity of this Act with a net floor area in excess of one thousand two 
hundred and fifty square feet, and the average net floor area of all 
such family quarters shall not exceed one thousand and eighty square 
feet. 
SEC. 505. Appropriations made to carry out the purposes of this Act 
shall be available with respect to public works projects authorized by 
law for expenses incident to construction, including administration, 
overhead, planning, and supervision. 
SEC. 506. Whenever— 
(a) the President determines that compliance with the require-
ments of Public Law 245, Eighty-second Congress, in the case of 
contracts made pursuant to this Act with respect to the establish-
ment or development of military installations and facilities in 
foreign countries would interfere with the carrying out of the 
provisions of this Act; and 
(b) the Secretary of Defense and the Comptroller General have 
agreed upon alternative methods for conducting an adequate audit 
of such contracts. 
Acqui s i t i o n of 
land, etc. 
10 u s e 1339; 31 
u s e 529; 40 USC 
259, 267. 
Appropriations. 
e o s t variations. 
Family quarters. 
P u b l i c 
w o r k s 
projects. 
Contracts. 
65 Stat. 700. 
41 USC 153, 254. 
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tation. cost limi-
the President is authorized to exempt such contracts from the require-
ments of Public Law 245, Eighty-second Congress. 
SEC. 507. Section 201 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize cer-
tain construction at military and naval installations, and for other 
purposes", approved September 28, 1951 (65 Stat. 336), is amended 
(a) by inserting in the paragraph relating to naval air facility, Glynco, 
Georgia, after the semicolon the following: "acquisition of land;", (b) 
by inserting in the paragraph relating to naval air station, Willow 
Grove, Pennsylvania, after the word "facilities", a comma and the 
following: "including acquisition of land", and (c) by striking out in 
the paragraph relating to Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, 
the words "additional floor on amphibious warfare school,", and 
inserting in lieu thereof "Communication Officers' School;". 
SEC. 508. None of the authority contained in titles I, II, and I I I of 
this Act shall be deemed to authorize any building construction project 
within the continental United States at a unit cost in excess of— 
(a) $20 per square foot for cold-storage warehousing, 
(b) $6 per square foot for regular warehousing, 
(c) $1,700 per man for permanent barracks, 
(d) $1,400 per man for ten-year-life barracks, or 
(e) $5,000 per man for bachelor officer quarters, 
unless the Secretary of Defense determines that, because of special cir-
cumstances, application to such project of the limitation on unit costs 
contained in this section is impracticable. 
Rescissions. 
TITLE VI 
62 Stat. 375. 
SEC. 601. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
under section 1 of Public Law 626, Eightieth Congress, to proceed 
with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts 
with respect to the following installations is rescinded. 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Army and Navy general hospital. Hot Springs, Arkansas: $852,100. 
Army and Navy Medical Procurement Office, Engineering and 
Development Division, Fort Totten, New York: $12,707. 
Anniston Ordnance Depot, Alabama: $60,000. 
Fort Belvoir, Virginia: $455,046. 
Fort Benning, Georgia: $421,538. 
Fort Bliss, Texas: $405,440. 
Fort Bragg, North Carolina: $1,335,255. 
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland (including Technical Command, 
Army Chemical Center, and Chemical Corps School) : $391,776. 
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado: $132,989. 
Forest Glen, Maryland (as amended to read "Army Medical Center, 
Washington, District of Columbia", by Public Law 495, Eighty-first 
Congress) : $50,000. 
Fort Hamilton, New York Port of Embarkation, New York: 
$55,700. 
Camp-Hood, Texas: $1,188,212. 
Fort Sam Houston, Texas (including Brooke Army Medical 
Center) : $1,288,900. 
Huntsville Arsenal, Alabama: $279. 
Fort Knox, Kentucky: $560,221. 
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: $59,575. 
Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, California: $940,000. 
Lexington Signal Depot, Kentucky: $726. 
Malta Test Station, New York: $5,553. 
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Fort McPherson, Georgia: $110,938. 
Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: $256,870. 
Oakland Army Base, San Francisco Port of Embarkation, Cali-
fornia: $57,692. 
Oliver General Hospital, Augusta, Georgia: $231,000. 
Presidio of San Francisco, California: $115,961. 
Fort Riley, Kansas: $139,039. 
Fort Sheridan, Illinois: $250,026. 
Fort Sill, Oklahoma: $88,511. 
Camp Stoneman, San Francisco Port of Embarkation, California: 
$878,570. 
United States Military Academy, West Point, New York: $15,062. 
Valley Forge 
General Hospital, Phoenixville, 
Pennsylvania: 
$231,000. 
Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts: $87,000. 
Yuma Test Branch of the Engineer Board, Arizona: $354,067. 
OrrrsiDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Whittier, Alaska: $56,569. 
Adak ACS Station, Aleutian Islands: $689,650. 
Cathedral Bluff ACS Station, Alaska: $5,612. 
Fort Eandall ACS Station (Cold Bay), Alaska: $9,048. 
Juneau ACS Station, Alaska: $21,271. 
Northway ACS Station, Alaska: $4,942. 
Bethel ACS Station, Alaska: $28,154. 
Nome ACS Station, Alaska: $17,312. 
Sitka ACS Station, Alaska: $4,880. 
New Tripler General Hospital, Territory of Hawaii: $3,148,524. 
Fort Armstrong, Territory of Hawaii: $55,000. 
Helemano, Territory of Hawaii: $473,415. 
Waipio, Territory of Hawaii: $207,760. 
Fort DeRussey, Territory of Hawaii: $528,220. 
Army ground force bases, Marianas: $3,803,940. 
Clark-Stotsenberg Area, Philippine 
Islands 
(Army 
Security 
Agency) : $185,837. 
Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico: $8,313. 
Henry Barracks, Puerto Rico: $561,200. 
SEC. 602. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
imder section 3 of Public Law 626, Eightieth Congress, as is repre- 
62 stat. 379. 
sented by the following amounts is rescinded: 
Emergency projects within the United States: $481,143. 
Emergency projects outside the United States: $890,152. 
SEC. 603. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
under section 1 of Public Law 653, Eightieth Congress, to proceed with 
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public works projects as is represented by the following amounts with 
respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: $10,800,000. 
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland: $184,500. 
Naval unit, White Sands Proving Ground, Las Cruces, New Mexico: 
$467,710. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Naval operating base, Adak, Alaska: $1,248,723. 
Naval supplementary radio activity, Adak, Alaska: $2,500,000. 
Naval radio station, Adak, Alaska : $2,395,000. 
Naval radio station, Argentia, Newfoundland: $16,500. 
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63 Stat. 937. 
64 Stat. 236. 
Naval radio station, Greenland: $980,677. 
Naval medical center, Guam: $4,000,000. 
Naval air station, Guam: $16,500. 
Naval air station, Kodiak, Alaska: $16,500. 
Naval base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: $153,750. 
Naval operating base, Saipan: $165,000. 
Naval radio station. Summit, Canal Zone: $612,000. 
SEC. 604. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
under section 104 of Public Law 415, Eighty-first Congress, to proceed 
with public works projects with respect to the following installation 
as is represented by the following amount is rescinded: 
David W. Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland: $6,600,000. 
SEC. 605. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
63 Stat. 943. 
uudcr sectiou 101 of Public Law 420, Eighty-first Congress, to proceed 
with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts 
with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Whittier, Alaska: $217,164. 
Okinawa: $419,655. 
SEC. 606. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
under Title I of Public Law 564, Eighty-first Congress, to proceed 
with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts 
with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Army receiving station, La Plata, Maryland, $73,431. 
Army transmitting station, District of Columbia area: $90,963. 
Brooklyn Army base, New York: $36,500. 
Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah: $266,700. 
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan: $192,800. 
Camp Hood, Texas: $95,400. 
Lima Ordnance Depot, Ohio: $8,000. 
Marion Engineer Depot, Ohio: $110,599. 
Navajo Ordnance Depot, Arizona: $18,290. 
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey: $7,200. 
Redstone Arsenal (Huntsville), Alabama: $75,686, 
Fort Riley, Kansas: $5,546. 
Schenectady General Depot, New York: $724,146. 
Sharpe General Depot, California: $175,751. 
Hanford, Washington: $136,500. 
Fort Sheridan, Illinois: $18,098. 
Fort Sill, Oklahoma: $33,000. 
White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico: $70,892. 
SPECIAL WEAPONS PROJECT 
Classified installations: $782,300. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Alaska: $1,090. 
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska: $205,540. 
Fort Richardson, Alaska : $310,442. 
Okinawa: $1,039,540. 
Helemano, Oahu, Hawaii: $2,010. 
SEC. 607. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
64 Stat. 238. 
under title I I of Public Law 564, Eighty-first Congress, as is repre-
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sented by the following amounts with respect to the following installa-
tions is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Naval research laboratory, Anacostia, District of Columbia: $78,500. 
Naval command operations center, Training Center, First Naval 
District: $39,761. 
Naval training schools, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts: $40,000. 
Naval aviation ordnance test station, Chincoteague, Virginia: 
$1,165,000. 
Naval proving ground, Dahlgr^n, Virginia: $410,000. 
Naval ordnance aerophysics laboratory, Daingerfield, 
Texas: 
$362,000. 
Naval ammunition depot, Earle, New Jersey: $435,000. 
Naval ammunition depot, Hawthorne, Nevada: $13,000. 
Naval ordnance test station, Inyokern, California: $700,000. 
Naval air station, Jacksonville, Florida: $119,250. 
Naval fuel storage facility, Jacksonville, Florida: $179,753. 
Naval air development station, Johnsville, Pennsylvania: $5,175. 
Naval station, Key West, Florida: $40,271. 
Naval aeronautical rocket laboratory. Lake Denmark, New Jersey: 
$4,750,000. 
Naval air test center, Patuxent River, Maryland: $55,500. 
Naval air station, Pensacola, Florida: $42,500. 
Naval electronics laboratory. Point Loma, California: $350. 
Naval air station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island: $15,000. 
Special devices center. Sands Point, Long Island, New York: $23,500. 
Twelfth Naval District: $4,250. 
Naval air station, Whidbey Island, Washington: $1,790. 
Naval ordnance laboratory, White Oak, Maryland: $1,540,000. 
Naval communications station. Winter Harbor, Maine: $25,550. 
Fort Lauderdale, Florida: $275,000. 
Various locations (with respect to additional aviation fuel storage 
to support jet operations) : $36,592. 
Various locations (with respect to extension of runways for jet 
operations) : $330,042. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Naval supply center, Guam: $200,000. 
Naval operating base, Guam: $2,738,000. 
Argentia, Newfoundland: $20,000. 
Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico: $16,500. 
Naval station Tutuila Island, Samoa: $175. 
Various (with respect to additional communications facilities) : 
$1,000,000. 
Various (with respect to aviation gas storage) : $189,366. 
SEC. 608. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
under section 101 of Public Law 910, Eighty-first Congress, to proceed 
64 stat. 1221. 
with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts 
with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Army field force stations: $2,274,481. 
Quartermaster Corps technical service stations: $182,795. 
Chemical Corps technical service stations: $264,123. 
Corps of Engineers technical service stations: $276,865. 
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Finance Corps technical service stations: $4,680,000. 
Adjutant General's Corps technical service stations: $5,500. 
Army Medical Service technical service stations: $174,402. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Japan: $538,984. 
SEC. 609. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
64 Stat. 1221. 
uuder section 102 of Public Law 910, Eighty-first Congress, to proceed 
with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts 
with respect to the following installations is rescinded. 
SPECIAL W E A P O N S PROJECT 
64 Stat. 1222. 
65 Stat. 336. 
Classified installations: $242,901. 
SEC. 610. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
under section 201 of Public Law 910, Eighty-first Congress, to proceed 
with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts 
with respect to the following types of facilities is rescinded. 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Ordnance facilities: $130,350. 
Supply facilities: $10,650. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Fleet facilities: $168,118. 
Aviation facilities: $42,000. 
SEC. 611. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
under section 101 of Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress, to 
proceed with public works projects as is represented by the following 
amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Fort Devens, Massachusetts: $214,200. 
Camp Edwards, Massachusetts: $591,500. 
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey: $619,050. 
Pine Camp, New York: $415,000. 
Bethany Beach, Delaware: $805,450. 
Fort Campbell, Kentucky: $6,283,750. 
Indiantown Gap Military Keservation, Pennsylvania: $1,300,000. 
Fort Knox, Kentucky: $567,850. 
Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: $2,013,500. 
Camp Pickett, Virginia: $460,540. 
Fort Benning, Georgia: $1,183,214. 
Camp Blanding, Florida: $3,406,100. 
Fort Bragg, North Carolina: $432,600. 
Camp Gordon, Georgia: $2,391,640. 
Fort Jackson, South Carolina: $584,188. 
Camp McCain, Mississippi: $5,400,200. 
Fort McClellan, Alabama: $5,130,135. 
Camp Rucker, Alabama: $385,360. 
Camp Shelby, Mississippi: $4,993,890. 
Camp Stewart, Georgia: $2,365,500. 
Fort Bliss, Texas: $4,202,442. 
Camp Bowie, Texas: $4,994,479. 
Camp Chaffee, Arkansas: $1,888,400. 
Camp Gruber, Oklahoma: $8,432,265. 
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Fort Hood, Texas: $4,018,946. 
Fort Sam Houston, Texas: $158,000. 
Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas: $2,432,200. 
Fort Sill, Oklahoma: $6,018,600. 
Camp Swift, Texas: $4,943,220. 
Camp Atterbury, Indiana: $442,000. 
Camp Carson, Colorado: $211,710. 
Fort Custer, Michigan: $3,070,000. 
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri: $1,490,025. 
Camp Lucas, Michigan: $139,000. 
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin: $1,509,600. 
Camp Cooke, California: $2,203,500. 
Hanford, Washington: $989,800. 
Camp Irwin, California: $2,782,700. 
Fort Lewis, Washington (including Yakima Training: Center) : 
$14,166,421. 
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Fort Ord, California: $6,677,680. 
Presidio of San Francisco, California: $70,200. 
Camp San Luis Obispo, California: $300,550. 
Camp Stoneman, California: $516,000. 
Camp White, Oregon: $11,138,600. 
Yuma, Arizona: $22,350. 
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: $1,262,000. 
Anniston Ordnance Depot, Alabama: $1,328,000. 
Augusta Arsenal, Georgia: $50,000. 
Blue Grass Ordnance Depot, Kentucky: $1,283,705. 
Letterkenny Ordnance Depot, Pennsylvania: $1,562,300. 
Milan Arsenal, Tennessee: $116,000. 
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey: $125,000. 
Pueblo Ordnance Depot, Colorado: $1,604,000. 
Red River Arsenal, Texas: $2,761,900. 
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama: $2,230,900. 
Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois: $278,900. 
Savanna Ordnance Depot, Illinois: $410,000. 
Sierra Ordnance Depot, California: $175,000. 
Springfield Armory, Massachusetts: $310,000. 
Terre Haute Ordnance Depot, Indiana: $54,000. 
Tooele Ordnance Depot, Utah: $129,700. 
Umatilla Ordnance Depot, Oregon: $7,000. 
Watervliet Arsenal, New York: $275,500. 
White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico: $808,896. 
Wingate Ordnance Depot, New Mexico: $350,000. 
Auburn General Depot, Washington: $2,244,300. 
Belle Meade General Depot, New Jersey: $11,760,000. 
Columbus General Depot, Ohio: $31,600. 
Fort Lee, Virginia: $280,700. 
Memphis General Depot, Tennessee: $4,480,000. 
Richmond Quartermaster Depot, Virginia: $826,600. 
Schenectady General Depot, New York: $1,672,000. 
Sharpe General Depot, California: $2,652,600. 
Utah General Depot, Utah: $3,409,000. 
Army Chemical Center, Maryland: $758,180. 
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado: $19,000. 
Decatur Signal Depot, Illinois: $455,247. 
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Lexington Signal Depot, Kentucky: $572,310. 
Sacramento Signal Depot, California: $1,110,313. 
Vint Hill Farms, Virginia: $58,925. 
Baton Rouge Engineer Depot, Louisiana: $374,400 
Fort Belvoir, Virginia: $12,582,200. 
Marion Engineer Depot, Ohio: $100,200. 
Boston Staging Area, Massachusetts: $4,181,000. 
Fort Eustis, Virginia: $6,449,850. 
Hampton Roads Staging Area, Virginia: $7,470,800. 
Marietta Transportation Corps Depot, Pennsylvania: $1,937,000. 
Fort Story, Virginia: $1,299,500. 
Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas: $64,174. 
Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Colorado: $118,500. 
Madigan Army Hospital, Washington: $31,500. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Alaska, general: $16,272,400. 
Big Delta, Alaska: $753,948. 
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska: $819,900. 
Fort Richardson, Alaska: $1,424,430. 
Whittier, Alaska: $1,081,500. 
SEC. 612. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
65 Stat. 343. 
under section 201 of Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress, to 
proceed with public works projects as is represented by the following 
amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Naval amphibious base. Little Creek, Virginia: $220,000. 
Marine Corps air station, Cherry Point, North Carolina: $156,000. 
Naval training center, San Diego, California: $100,000. 
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland: $770,000. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Naval station, Adak, Alaska: $697,000. 
Naval operating base, Kodiak, Alaska: $700,000. 
Naval station, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands: $60,000. 
Naval mine and net depot, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: $2,381,500. 
Naval ammunition depot, Lualualei, Territory of Hawaii: $410,000. 
SEC. 613. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
65 Stat. 350. 
under section 202 of Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress, to 
proceed with classified public works projects as represented by the 
amount of $33,632,720 is rescinded. 
SEC. 614. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Air 
65 Stat. 350. 
Forcc uudcr section 301 of Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress, 
to proceed with public works projects as is represented by the follow-
ing amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Altus Municipal Airport, Altus, Oklahoma: $3,055,000. 
Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Maryland: $5,365,000. 
Ardmore Air Field, Ardmore, Oklahoma: $2,484,000. 
Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, Louisiana: $2,180,000. 
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Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas: $5,242,000. 
Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, Texas: $1,200,000. 
Camp Beale, Marysville, California: $18,686,000. 
Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas: $2,836,000. 
Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California: $1,544,000. 
Charleston Airfield, Charleston, South Carolina: $9,945,000. 
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona: $4,643,000. 
Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware: $4,349,000. 
Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado: $815,000. 
Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington: $6,996,000. 
Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas: $3,827,000. 
George Air Force Base, Victorville, California: $1,416,000. 
Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania: $1,302,000. 
Great Falls Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana: $2,809,000. 
Greenville Air Force Base, Greenville, South Carolina: $7,039,000. 
Hunter Air Force Base, Savannah, Georgia: $3,055,000. 
Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia: $6,441,000. 
Lawson Air Force Base, Columbus, Georgia: $3,731,000. 
March Air Force Base, Riverside, California: $2,024,000. 
McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Washington: $1,662,000. 
McGuire Air Force Base, Wrightstown, New Jersey: $15,000,000. 
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida: $1,343,000. 
Pope Air Force Base, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: $8,095,000. 
Rapid City Air Force Base, Rapid City, South Dakota: $2,538,000. 
Sewart Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tennessee: $4,493,000. 
Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina: $6,299,000. 
Smoky Hill Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas: $1,368,000. 
Truax Air Force Base, Madison, Wisconsin: $1,176,000. 
Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mexico: $1,109,000. 
Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota: $1,227,000. 
Amarillo Airfield, Amarillo, Texas: $6,193,000. 
Camp Shoemaker NRS, Shoemaker, California: $21,293,000. 
Clovis Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mexico: $3,053,000. 
Craig Air Force Base, Selma, Alabama: $1,112,000. 
Foster Field, Victoria, Texas: $1,150,000. 
Francis 
E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, 
Wyoming: 
$3,991,000. 
Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi: $14,349,000. 
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: $26,313,000. 
Laughlin Field, Del Rio, Texas: $1,609,000. 
Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado: $11,343,000. 
Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: $2,318,000. 
Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas: $2,938,000. 
Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: $960,000. 
Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California: $1,084,000. 
Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc, California: $1,114,000. 
E'glin Air Force Base, Valparaiso, Florida: $13,613,000. 
Various locations 
(modernization 
of mobilization barracks) : 
$100,000,000. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Cape Air Force Base, Umnak Island, Alaska: $2,450,000. 
Ladd Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska: $10,090,000. 
Various locations (prefab buildings) : $5,000,000. 
460 
PUBLIC LAW 209-AUG. 7, 1953 
[67 STAT. 
65 Stat. 363. 
SEC. 615. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Air 
Force under section 302 of Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress, 
to proceed with classified public works projects as is represented by 
the amount of $2,433,000 is rescinded. 
SEC. 616. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Navy 
65 Stat. 363. 
under section 402 of Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress, to 
proceed with public works projects intended primarily for welfart 
and morale purposes as is represented by the amount of $105,000 is 
rescinded. 
SEC. 617. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
66 Stat. 606. 
uudcr sectiou 101 of Public L a w 534, Eighty-second Congress, to 
proceed with public works projects as is represented by the following 
amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Fort Totten, New York: $45,000. 
Fort Campbell, Kentucky: $22,000. 
Fort Knox, Kentucky: $7,000. 
Camp Pickett, Virginia, $137,000. 
Fort Penning, Georgia: $2,274,000. 
Fort Bragg, North Carolina: $96,500. 
Camp Eucker, Alabama: $94,500. 
Fort McPherson, Georgia: $31,000. 
Camp Stewart, Georgia: $362,000. 
Camp Chaffee, Arkansas: $411,000. 
Fort Hood, Texas: $106,000. 
Fort Sill, Oklahoma: $486,000. 
Fort Custer, Michigan: $113,100. 
Camp Cooke, California: $147,000. 
Camp Hanford, Washington: $43,000. 
Fort Huachuca, Arizona: $449,000. 
Yuma Test Station, Arizona: $154,000. 
California Institute of Technology, California: $10,380. 
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama: $242,000. 
Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts: $93,500. 
White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico: $1,918,000. 
Army Chemical Center, Maryland: $151,000. 
Dugway Proving Ground, Utah: $38,000. 
Fort Terry, New York: $21,600. 
Two Rock Ranch, California: $360,000. 
Fort Belvoir, Virginia: $348,000. 
Brooklyn Army Base, New York: $65,000. 
Fort Eustis, Virginia: $147,000. 
New Orleans Army Base, Louisiana: $38,800. 
Madigan Army Hospital, Washington: $100,000. 
OTJTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
Big Delta, Alaska: $484,800. 
Kenai, Alaska: $341,000. 
Fort Richardson, Alaska: $1,327,000. 
Okinawa: $886,000. 
Helemano Radio Station, Territory of Hawaii: $37,500. 
SEC. 618. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Army 
66 Stat. 609. 
under section 102 of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress, to pro-
ceed with classified public works projects as is represented by the 
amount of $795,600 is rescinded. 
67 
S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 211-AUG. 7. 1953 
461 
SEC. 619. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Air Force 
under section 301 of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress, to pro-
ceed with public works projects as is represented by the following 
amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
Sioux City Municipal Airport, Sioux City, Iowa: $17,000,000. 
Houma Gunnery Range, Houma, Louisiana: $3,000,000. 
Charlotte County Airport, Punta Gorda, Florida: $2,731,000. 
Godman Air Force Base, Fort Knox, Kentucky: $995,000. 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
66 Stat. 613. 
Public Law 210 
CHAPTER 343 
AN ACT 
To amend section 202 of the Federal Power Act, with respect to the jurisdiction 
of the Federal Power Commission over persons and facilities engaged in the 
transmission or sale of electric energy to foreign countries. 
August 7, 1953 
[S.1442] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Atnerica in Congress assembled^ That section 202 of 
part II of the Federal Power Act is hereby amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following subsection: 
" (f) The ownership or operation of facilities for the transmission 
or sale at wholesale of electric energy which is (a) generated within 
a State and transmitted from that State across an international 
boundary and not thereafter transmitted into any other State, or 
(b) generated in a foreign country and transmitted across an inter-
national boundary into a State and not thereafter transmitted into 
any other State, shall not make a person a public utility subject to 
regulation as such under other provisions of this part. 
The State 
within which any such facilities are located may regulate any such 
transaction insofar as such State regulation does not conflict with the 
exercise of the Commission's powers under or relating to subsection 
202 (e)." 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
Electric energy. 
Transmission or 
sale. 
49 Stat. 847. 
16 u s e 824a. 
Public Law 211 
CHAPTER 344 
AN ACT 
August 7, l i 
To amend section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, 
[8.2315] 
as amended. 
August 7, 1953 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 39 of 
the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, is 
amended by inserting " ( a ) " after "SEC. 39." and by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection: 
"(b) The Attorney General is authorized and directed, immediateh'^ 
upon the enactment of this subsection, to cover into the Treasury oi 
the United States, for deposit into the War Claims Fund, from prop-
erty vested in or transferred to him under this Act, such sums, not to 
exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate, as may be necessary to satisfj'^ 
unpaid awards heretofore or hereafter made under the War Claims 
Act of 1948. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Attorney G( leral such sums as may be necessary to replace the sums ""^e 
deposited by him pursuant to the foregoing sentence." 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
62 Stat. 1246. 
50 u s e app. 39. 
War Claims Fund. 
Sums for deposit. 
62 Stat. 1240. 
50 u s e app.2001 
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