An Act making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for other purposes
PL 87-302 (H.R.8302), enacted 09/26/1961

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Public Law 87-302 
September 26, lO'dl 
[H. R. 8302] 
AN ACT 
Milit a r y C o n -
struction A p p r o -
priation Act, 1962. 
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68 Stat. 47. 
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Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of De-
fense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, for mili-
tary construction functions administered by the Department of De-
fense, and for other purposes, namely: 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
For transfer by the Secretary of Defense to appropriations avail-
able for military construction, to be used for the purposes of title V 
of Public Law 87-57, approved June 27,1961, and to be merged with 
the appropriations to which transferred, $27,000,000. 
LoRAN STATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
For construction of additional loran stations by the Coast Guard, 
to remain available until expended, $10,000,000, which shall be trans-
ferred on approval of the Secretary of Defense to the appropriation, 
"Acquisition, construction, and improvements". Coast Guard. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tempo-
rary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities 
for the Army as currentlj^ authorized in military public works or 
military construction Acts, in sections 2673 and 2675 oi title 10, United 
States Code, to remain available until expended, $157,934,000. 
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 appropriation, to 
remain available until expended, $192,278,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE 
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of tem-
porary or permanent public works, militarj^ installations, and facilities, 
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), without regard 
to section 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code, to remain available 
until expended, $498,346,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and administration of the Army 
2 2 3 1 - Reserve, as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, 
as amended, the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, and such additional 
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projects as may be authorized by law during the first session of the 
Eighty-seventh 
Congress, to remain available until 
expended, 
$14,381,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVAL RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conver-
sion 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, the Reserve Forces 
Facilities Acts, and such additional projects as may be authorized by 
law during the first session of the Eighty-seventh Congress, to remain 
available until expended, $7,000,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and administration of the Air Force 
Reserve as authorized by chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, ^
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as amended, the Reserve Forces Facilities Acts, and such additional 
projects as may be authorized by law during the first session of the 
Eighty-seventh 
Congress, to remain 
available until 
expended, 
$4,608,000. 
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 
133 of title 10, United States Code, as amended, the Reserve Forces ^^\o use 2231-
Facilities Acts, and such additional projects as may be authorized by 
law during the first session of the Eighty-seventh Congress, to remain 
available until expended, $21,868,750. 
MiiJTARY CONSTRUCTION, A I R 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, the Reserve Forces 
Facilities Acts, and such additional projects as may be authorized by 
law during the first session of the Eighty-seventh Congress, to remain 
available until expended, $18,275,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. Funds appropriated to the military departments for con- 
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struction in prior years are hereby made available for construction 
authorized for each such department by the authorizations enacted 
into law during the first session of the Eighty-seventh Congress. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
cost-pius-a. 
expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work tracrs*!"^* e c on-
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 
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expended for additional costs involved in expediting construction 
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unless the Secretary of Defense certifies such costs to be necessary 
to protect the national interest and establishes a reasonable completion 
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Bakeries, l a u n -
dries, etc. 
Motor 
v e h i c l e 
hire, etc. 
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Stat. 524. 
New bases. 
Family quarters. 
Air Force Acad-
ertiy. 
72 Stat. 1459. 
Land purchase. 
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 the services to be furnished 
bv such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at reason-
able rates. 
SEC. 105. Funds appropriated to the military departments for con-
struction are hereby made available for: (1) hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, and (2) the construction, or acquisition by lease or otherwise, 
of family housing and community facilities projects in foreign 
countries as authorized by section 407(b) of the Act of September 1, 
1954 (68 Stat. 1119), as amended. 
SEC. 106. Appropriations to the military departments for construc-
tion may be charged for the cost of administration, 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 
not to exceed 3i/^ per centum of the cost of each such project: Provided^ 
That such appropriations shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of 
any mortgage executed on each such project. 
SEC. 107. Funds appropriated to the military departments for 
construction may be used for advances to the Bureau of Public Roads, 
Department of Commerce, for the purposes of 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. 108. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
to begin construction on new bases for which specific appropriations 
have not been made. 
SEC. 109. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
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 event shall the individual cost exceed $40,000. 
SEC. 110. No part of the funds contained in this Act shall be used 
to incur obligations for the planning, design, or construction of facili-
ties for an Air Force Academy the total cost of which will be in ex-
cess of $140,986,000, except for construction pursuant to section 2674 
of title 10, United States Code, as amended. 
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. 
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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. No part of the funds contained in this Act shall be used 
to incur obligations for the planning, design, or construction of facili-
ties for the Naval Radio Research Station, Sugar Grove, West Vir-
ginia, the total cost for which will be in excess of $135,000,000. 
SEC. 114. This Act may be cited as the Military Construction Appro-
priation Act, 1962. 
Approved September 26, 1961. 
Foreign proj ect s. 
Construction lim-
itation. 
Short title. 
Public Law 87-303 
AN ACT 
To amend the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, with respect to its applicability to 
certain vessels. 
September 26, 1961 
[H, R. 2308] 
Applicability. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) paragraph A^'^^i^o'^^encT 
(a) of subsection (D) of the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920 (46 U.S.C. men't. 
922), is amended by striking out "of less than tw^o hundred gross 
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tons" and.inserting in lieu thereof "of less than twenty-five gross 
tons". 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall 
not apply to (1) any mortgage in existence on the date of enactment 
of this Act, or (2) any mortgage placed on a vessel after the date of 
enactment of this Act under a mortgage on such vessel in existence 
on the date of enactment of this Act, so long as such existing mortgage 
remains undischarged. 
SEC. 2. Paragraph (a) of section 1101 of title X I of the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1271), is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) The term 'mortgage' includes a preferred mortgage as de-
fined in the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, as amended, on any vessel of the 
United States (other than a towboat, barge, scow, lighter, car float, 
canal boat, or tank vessel, of less than two hundred gross tons), and a 
mortgage on such a vessel which will become a preferred mortgage 
when recorded and endorsed as required by the Ship Mortgage Act, 
1920, as amended;". 
SEC. 3. The proviso at the end of section 511 (h) of the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Pro-
vided^ That until January 1, 1962, in addition to the extensions here-
inbefore permitted, further extensions may be granted ending not 
later than December 31, 1962". 
SEC. 4. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
take effect December 31,1961, or on the date of enactment of this Act, 
whichever date first occurs. 
Approved September 26, 1961. 
68 Stat. 1267. 
"Mortgage." 
41 Stat. 1000. 
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73 Stat. 471. 
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Effective date.