An Act to authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard
PL 91-49 (H.R.4153), enacted 07/22/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-49-JULY 22, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
Public Law 91-49 
July 22,1969 
AN A C T 
[H. R. 4153] 
To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and con-
struction of sliore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of BefresentatlveH 
of the 
A°^ro ?ilaon 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That funds are 
authorization. 
hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1970 for tlie use of 
the Coast Guard as follows: 
VESSELS 
For procumment, increasing capability and extension of service life 
of vessels, $56,584,000. 
A. Procurement: 
(1) three high endurance cutters; 
(2) one coastal buoy tender; 
(S) vessel design. 
None of the vessels authorized herein shall be procured from other 
than shipyards and facilities within the United States. 
B. Increasing capability: 
(1) modify balloon tracking radar for high endurance cut-
ters to improve target acquisition; 
(2) install tactical navigational equipment on two high endur-
ance cutters; 
(3) increase fuel capacity and improve habitability on three 
hundred and twenty-seven foot high endurance cutters; 
(4) modernize and improve selected buoy tenders. 
C. Extension of service life: 
(1) Re-engine tAvo ferryboats. 
AIRCRAFT 
For procurement and extension of service life of aircraft, $17,188,000. 
A. Procurement: 
(1) nine medium range helicopters. 
B. Extension of service life: 
(1) replace center wing box beam of six HC-130 aircraft. 
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, $57,378,000. 
(1) San Francisco, California: radio station; 
(2) Air station, Brooklyn, New York: barracks, messing; 
(3) Station, Scituate, Massachusetts: improve facilities; 
(4) Base, Boston, Massachusetts: improve facilities; 
(5) Station, Barnegat, New Jersey: improve facilities; 
(6) New London, Connecticut: relocate and consolidate facil-
ities; 
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(7) Base, Portsmouth, Virginia: relocate and consolidate facil-
ities; 
(8) Base, San Francisco (Yerba Buena Island), California: 
improve facilities; 
(9) Base, San Juan, Puerto Rico: improve facilities; 
(10) Station, Grays Harbor, Westport, Washington: improve 
facilities; 
(11) Station, Neah Bay, Washington: improve facilities; 
(12) Loran Station, French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii: bulkhead; 
(13) Air Station, Saint Petersburg, Florida: helicopter sup-
port facilities; 
(14) Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii: improve facilities; 
(15) Base, Mayport, Florida: improve facilities; 
(16) Station, Caj)e May, New Jersey: shop building; 
(17) Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland: consolidate and modify 
buildings, and recondition gantry cranes; 
(18) Various locations: sewage and oil collection; fuel and 
water catchment systems; 
(19) Cape Charles City, .Virginia: establish Station; 
(20) Houston, Texas: permanent Station; 
(21) Channel Islands Harbor, California: multipurpose Sta-
tion; 
(22^ Kodiak, Alaska: moorings; 
(23) Various locations: automatic fixed station oceanographic 
sensor systems; 
(24) Lower Mississippi River, Kentucky and Tennessee: 
improve facilities for performance of buoyage function; 
(25) Offshore structure, Portland, Maine: structure to replace 
lightship; 
(26) Various locations: automate light stations; 
(27) Various locations: miscellaneous urgent and selected aids 
to navigation projects; 
(28) Academy, New London, Connecticut: library center; 
(29) Academy, New London, Connecticut: cadet barracks 
extension; 
(30) Training Center, Alameda, California: enlisted barracks; 
(31) Training Center, Yorktown, Virginia: fire station, oper-
ations, and medical-dental buildings; 
(32) Base, Governors Island, New York: reserve training cen-
ter building; 
(33) Air Station, Mobile, Alabama: synthetic flight training 
system; 
(34) Various locations: public family quarters; and 
(35) Various locations: advance j)lanning, survey, design, and 
architectural services; and acquire sites in connection with proj-
ects not otherwise authorized by law. 
BRIDGE ALTERATIOXS 
For payment to bridge owners for the cost of alteration of railroad 
and public highway bridges to permit free na>'igation of the navigable 
waters of the United States, $12,650,000. 
Approved July 22, 1969.