An Act to authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and off-shore establishments for the Coast Guard
PL 89-381 (H.R.12762), enacted 03/30/1966

96 
PUBLIC LAW 89-381-MAR. 30, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
Public Law 89-381 
March 30, 1966 
-^N ACT 
[H. R. 12762] 
To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and con-
struction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Coast Guard. 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That funds are 
authorTJ'aUon?" 
hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1967 for the use of 
the Coast Guard as follows: 
VESSELS 
For procurement, extension of service life, and increasing capability 
of vessels, $63,210,000. 
(A) Procurement: 
(1) four high-endurance cutters; 
^2) one river tender; 
(3) design of icebreaker; 
(4) design of oceanographic cutter; and 
(5) design of small cutter. 
(B) Increasing capabil ity: 
(1) install secure communications equipment on three high-
endurance cutters; and 
(2) install balloon tracking radar on one high-endurance cutter. 
(C) Extension of service life: 
(1) improve icebreakers; and 
(2) enlarge operations center on two two-hundred-and-fifty-
five-foot high-endurance cutters. 
AIRCRAFT 
For procurement of aircraft, $29,144,000: 
(1) three long-range aircraft; 
(2) five medium-range fixed or rotary-wing aircraft; and 
(3) twenty medium-range helicopters. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For establishment or development of installations and facilities by 
acquisition, construction, conversion, extension, or installation of per-
manent or temporary public works, including the preparation of sites 
and furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment for the fol-
lowing, $33,726,000. 
(1) Station, Umpqua River, Oregon: barracks, messing and opera-
tions building; equipment building; and public family quarters; 
(2) Station, Coos Bay, Oregon: operations building, garage and 
public family quarters; 
(3) Base, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: administration, industrial and 
buoy maintenance building; dock; and breakwater on leased premises 
with long-term lease; 
(4) Depot, Southwest Harbor, Maine: barracks and mess building, 
piers, and public family quarters; 
(5) Station, New Canal, Louisiana: utility building, bulkhead, and 
dock; 
(6) Base, Governors Island, New York: industrial facilities, piers; 
and acquisition of the building constructed on the Fort Jay Military 
Reservation, New^ York, by the Young Men's Christian Association; 
80 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-381-MAR. 30, 1966 
97 
(7) Station, Saint Ignace, Michigan: barracks, messing- and opera-
tions building, garage, piers, breakwater, and public family quarters; 
(8) Station, Grand Isle, Louisiana: moormgs, bulkhead, public 
family quarters, and completion of LORAN-A station; 
(9) Air Station, South San Francisco, California: barracks and 
sickbay building, rehabilitation of existing barracks as administration 
and messing building, transmitter-emergency operations building; 
(10) Various locations: transportable communications units; 
(11) Base, New Orleans, Louisiana: third and fourth floors of ad-
ministration building, gatehouse, shop buildings, and moorings; 
(12) Station, Rappahannock River, Virginia: barracks, messing, 
operations building; bulkhead, pier; and public family quarters; 
(13) Radio Station, Long Beach, California: transmitter installa-
tion ; 
(14) Radio Station, Kodiak Island, Alaska: transmitter and 
antennas; 
(15) Station, Marathon. Florida: barracks, administration and 
operations building, storage building wharf, bulkhead and seawall; 
(16) Station, Cape May, New Jei"sey: hangar, offices, shop building, 
and improve mooring; 
(17) Air Station, Kodiak, Alaska: improvement of hangar doors; 
(18) Base, Terminal Island, San Pedro, California: supply ware-
house ; 
(19) Moorings, Pine Bluff, Arkansas: establish moorings for aids 
to navigation tender; 
(20) Various locations: Aids to navigation projects including, where 
necessary, advance planning and acquisition of sites; 
(21) LORAN-A Stations, Galveston and Port Isabel, Texas: trans-
mitter, power, and storage buildings; 
(22) Academy, New London, Connecticut: cadet barracks; 
(23) Recruit Training Center, Cape May, New Jersey: administra-
tion building; 
(24) Reserve Training Center, Yorktown, Virginia: Engineman 
School classification and laboratory building; 
(25) Station, Chicago, Illinois: hangar, offices, shop building, and 
improved mooring; 
(26) Cape Kennedy, Florida: hangar, offices, shop building, and 
improved mooring; 
(27) Various locations: public family quarters; and 
(28) Various locations: advance planning, construction design 
architectural services and acquisition of sites in connection with public 
works projects not otherwise authorized by law. 
SEC. 2. During fiscal years 1967 through and including 1968 the Sec- housfrf'"aci'ives^ 
retary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating is iTrsTr^aut^horuy!' 
authorized to lease existing housing facilities at or near Coast Guard 
installations in the L^nited States and Puerto Rico for assignment as 
l>ublic quarters to military personnel and their dependents, if any, 
without rental charge upon a determination by the Secretary, or his 
designee, that there is a lack of adequate housing facilities at or near 
such Coast Guard installations. 
Such housing facilities may be 
leased on an individual or multiple-unit basis. Expenditures for the 
rental of such housing facilities may not exceed the average authorized 
for the Department of Defense. 
Approved March 30, 1966.