An Act making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes
PL 86-630 (H.R.12231), enacted 07/12/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-630-JULY 12, 1960 
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Public Law 86-630 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1961, and for other purposes. 
July 12, 1960 
[H, R. 12231] 
Con-
Be it enacted l)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following st^ction^'/ppro-
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- t>riation Act, igei. 
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, for mili-
tary construction functions administered by the Department of De-
fense, and for other purposes, namely: 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 
For construction as authorized by title IV of the Act of June 8, 
1960 (Public Law 86-500), to remain available until expended, not 
to exceed $20,000,000, to be derived by transfer from funds available 
to the Office of the Secretary of Defense for advanced research 
projects. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tempo-
rary or permanent public works, militarj^ installations, and facilities 
for the Army as currently authorized m military public works or 
military construction Acts, in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, United 
States Code, to remain available until expended, $148,407,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tempo-
rary or permanent public works, naval installations, and facilities 
for the Navy as currently authorized in military public works or 
military construction Acts, in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, United 
States Code, including personnel in the Bureau of Yards and Docks 
and other personal services necessary for the purposes of this appro-
priation, to remain available until expended, $162,519,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tem-
porary or permanent public works, military installations, and facili-
ties for the Air Force as currently authorized in military public works 
or military construction Acts, in sections 2673 and 2675 of title 10, 
United States Code, the Act of April 1,1954 (Public Law 325), with-
out regard to section 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code, and 
section 3734, Eevised Statutes, as amended, to remain available until 
expended, $609,501,000: Provided^' That the words "solar furnace" 
under this head in the Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1959, 
are amended to read "solar facilities". 
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, the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, and such additional 
projects as may be authorized by law during the second session of 
the Eighty-sixth Congress, to remain available until expended, 
$16,038,000. 
Ante, p. 182. 
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1460. 
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1459, 
68 Stat. 47. 
70A Stat. 590. 
40 u s e 259, 267. 
72 Stat. 1098. 
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2238. 
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, XAVAL 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 
2238."^*^ 2 23 1
- 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, the Reserve Forces 
Facilities Acts, and such additional projects as may be authorized by 
law during the second session of the Eighty-sixth Congress, to remain 
available until expended, $4,000,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and administration of the Air Force 
2238,"^^ 223 1
- Reserve as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, 
as amended, the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, and such additional 
projects as may be authorized by law during the second session of the 
Eighty-sixth Congress, to remain available until expended, $4,000,000: 
Provided^ That such portion of the unexpended balance of the appro-
priation "Military construction. Air Force"' as may be determined by 
the Secretary of Defense to be available for the Air Force Reserve 
shall be merged with this appropriation. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and con-
version of facilities for the training and administration of the Army 
National Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized by chapter 
2238."^^ ^ " ^' 133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, the Reserve Forces 
Facilities Acts, and such additional projects as may be authorized by 
law during the second session of the Eighty-sixth Congress, to remain 
available until expended, $17,540,000: Provided^ That such portion 
of the unexpended balance of the appropriation "Military Construc-
tion, Army Reserve Forces" as may be determined by the Secretary 
of Defense to be available for the Army National Guard shall be 
merged with this appropriation. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and administration of the Air Na-
tional Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized by chapter 133 
of title 10, United States Code, as amended, the Reserve Forces Facili-
ties Acts, and such additional projects as may be authorized by law 
during the second session of the Eighty-sixth Congress, to remain 
available until expended, $13,850,000: Provided^ That of the amounts 
certified pursuant to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation 
68 Stat. 830. 
Act, 1955 (31 U.S.C. 200), as having been obligated under the appro-
priations for "Air National Guard," 1958, and "Air National Guard," 
1959, such portions thereof as may be determined by the Secretary of 
Defense to nave been obligated for construction may be merged with 
this appropriation. 
LORAN STATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF DETENSE 
For construction of additional loran stations by the Coast Guard to 
remain available until expended, $19,000,000, which shall be trans-
ferred on approval of the Secretary of Defense to the appropriation, 
"Acquisition, construction, and improvements", Coast Guard. 
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2238. 
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GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. Funds appropriated to the militarv departments for con-
struction in prior years are hereby made available for construction au-
thorized for each such department by the authorizations enacted into 
law during the second session of the Eighty-sixth Congress. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be f fx°e^d-?Je"co^ 
expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work tracts. 
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 ^tfJ^tton}"'^ ''°"' 
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 completion 
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 drfet^^tc.^' ^^""" 
for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, 
laundry, or dry 
cleaning 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 the services to be furnished 
by such racilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at 
reasonable rates. 
SEC. 105. Funds appropriated to the military departments for con- hi^°*etc.^**'^'^** 
struction are hereby made available for: (1) hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, and (2) the construction, or acquisition by lease or other-
wise, of family housing and community facilities projects in foreign 
countries as authorized by section 407(b) of the Act of September Ij 
1954 (68 Stat. 1119), as amended. 
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SEC. 106. Appropriations to the military departments for construc-
tion may be charged for the cost of admmistration, supervision and 
inspection of family housing authorized pursuant to title IV of the 
Act of August 11, 1955 (Public Law 345), as amended, in an amount 
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not to exceed 3i/^ per centum of the cost of each such project: Pro- i74 8g, 1720; 4
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vided, That such appropriations shall be reimbursed from the pro- ^^^ i594-i594f. 
ceeds of any mortgage executed on each such project. 
SEC. 107. Funds appropriated to the military departments for con-
struction may be used for advances to the Bureau of Public Eoads, 
Department of Commerce, for the purposes of section 210 of title 23, 
'2 stat. 908. 
United States Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as 
important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to 
^^"^ bases, 
begin construction on new bases for which specific appropriations have 
not been made. 
SEO. 109. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
F^'niiy quarters. 
for construction of family quarters for personnel shall not be obligated 
for such construction at a cost per family unit in excess of $22,000 on 
housing units for generals or equivalent; $19,800 on housing units for 
colonels or equivalent; $17,600 on housing units for majors and lieu-
tenant colonels, or equivalent; $15,400 on housing units for second 
lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, and warrant officers, or equivalent; 
or $13,200 on housing units for enlisted personnel, except that when 
such units are constructed outside the continental United States or in 
Alaska, the average cost per unit of all such units shall not exceed 
$32,000 and in no fevent shall the individual cost exceed $40,000, and 
except that the Secretary of the Army may provide 156 units of family 
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Air Force Acad-
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Land purchase. 
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Short title. 
housing for company grade officers at the United States Military 
Academy at a unit cost of not more than $20,300 per family unit. 
SEO. 110. No part of the funds contained in this Act shall be used 
to incur obligations for the planning, design, or construction of fa-
cilities for an Air Force Academy the total cost of which will be in 
excess of $139,797,000. 
SEC. 111. 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 Bureau 
of Yards and Docks, except: (a) where there is a determination of 
value by a Federal court, (b^ purchases negotiated by the Attorney 
General or his designee, and (c) where the estimated value is less than 
$25,000. 
SEC. 112. 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. 
SEC. 113. This Act may be cited as the "Military Construction 
Appropriation Act, 1961". 
Approved July 12, 1960. 
July 12, 1960 
[H. R. 7726] 
Public Law 86-631 
AN ACT 
To amend section 678 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C. 1078) relating to the 
transmission of petitions, notices, orders, and other papers to the Secretary 
of the Treasury in chapter XIII proceedings. 
Bankruptcy Act, 
amendment. 
52 Stat. 937. 
70 Stat. 955. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 678 of 
the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C. 1078) is amended to read: 
"SEC. 678. The court shall, in every case instituted under any pro-
visions of this chapter, mail or cause to be mailed a copy of the notice 
of the first meeting of creditors to the district director of internal 
revenue for the district in which the court is located. Whenever the 
schedules of the debtor, or the list of creditors of the debtor, or any 
other papers filed in the case disclose a debt to the United States acting 
through any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof (except 
for any internal revenue obligation payable to the Secretary of the 
Treasury or his delegate), a notice of the first meeting shall be mailed 
as well to the head of such department, agency, or instrumentality." 
SEC. 2. Section 58e of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended (11 U.S.C. 
94(e)), is amended by changing the comma following the word 
"located" in the first sentence thereof to a period, deleting the balance 
of that sentence, and substituting for the deleted portion the following 
new sentence: "In cases involving a bankrupt where it clearly appears 
on the face of the petition that the bankrupt is or was engaged in the 
business of transporting persons or property, the court also shall mail, 
or cause to be mailed, a copy of such notice to the Comptroller General 
of the United States." 
Approved July 12, 1960.