An Act to provide for family quarters for personnel of the military departments of the Department of Defense and their dependents, and for other purposes
PL 83-765 (H.R.9924), enacted 09/01/1954

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Public Law 765 
CHAPTER 1210 
AN ACT 
September 1, 19!>4 
To provide for family quarters for personnel of the military departments of the 
[H. R. 9924] 
Department of Defense and their dependents, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted l)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, 
- ^ " y * ^avy, Air 
Force family houis-
ing. 
TITLE I 
SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Army is authorized further to develop 
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military installations and facilities by providing family housing for 
personnel of the military departments and their dependents by the 
construction or installation of public works, Avhich include site prepara-
tion, appurtenances, utilities, equipment and the acquisition of land, 
as follows: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STA'i'ES 
(Third Army Area) 
Fort Campbell, Kentucky: Three hundred units of family housing, 
$4,093,000. 
(Fourth Army Area) 
Fort Bliss, Texas: Two hundred and fiftv units of family housing, 
$3,213,000. 
Fort Hood, Texas: Six hundred units of family housing, $8,099,000. 
(Fifth Army Area) 
Camp Carson, Colorado: One thousand units of family housing, 
$13,427,000. 
Camp Crowder, Missouri: Seventy units of family 
housing, 
$952,000. 
(Sixth Army Area) 
Fort Lewis, Washington: Eight hundred units of family housing, 
$10,686,000. 
Camp Cooke (United States Disciplinary Barracks), California: 
Fifty units of family housing, $663,000. 
Yuma Test Station, Arizona: Twenty units of family housing, 
$267,000. 
(Quartermaster Corps) 
Belle Mead General Depot, New Jersey: Ten units of family hous-
ing, $158,000. 
(Chemical Corps) 
Dugway Proving Ground, Utah: Thirty units of family housing, 
$486,000. 
(Signal Corps) 
Fort Huachuca, Arizona: Two hundred units of family housing, 
$2,899,000. 
Department of the Army Transmitting Station, Virginia: Ten 
units of family housing, $164,000. 
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(Corps of Engineers) 
Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Three hundred units of family housing, 
$3,984,000. 
(Transportation Corps) 
Fort Eustis, Virginia: Two hundred and fifty units of family 
housing, $3,374,000. 
Wilmington Ammunition Terminal, North Carolina: Four units of 
family housing, $69,000. 
(Army Security Agency) 
Two Eock Ranch Station, California: Ten units of family housing, 
$160,000. 
(Armed Forces Special Weapons Project) 
Sandia Base, New Mexico: Three units of family housing, $79,000. 
Killeen Base, Texas: Five units of family housing, $99,000. 
(Tactical Sites) 
Various locations: Three hundred 
units of family 
housing, 
$3,990,000. 
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SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army is authorized further to develop 
military installations and facilities by providing family housing for 
personnel of the military departments and their dependents by the 
rehabilitation of public works, which include appurtenances, utilities, 
and equipment, in a total amount of $12,230,550: Provided, That in his 
discretion the Secretary of the Army may utilize the authorization 
contained in this section to provide family housing by the construction 
or installation of public works, which include site preparation, appur-
tenances, utilities, equipment, and acquisition of land, at locations to 
be determined by him. Such family housing shall be in addition to, 
but shall not exceed 5 per centum of, the total number of units author-
ized by section 101 of this Act, but the average cost of such additional 
units shall not exceed $12,500. 
TITLE I I 
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SEC. 201. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized further to develop 
naval installations and facilities by providing family housing for per-
sonnel of the military departments and their dependents by the 
construction or installation of public works, which include site 
preparation, appurtenances, utilities, equipment, and the acquisition 
of land as follows: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
(First Naval District) 
Naval hospital, Newport, Rhode Island: Ten units of family hous-
ing, $152,000. 
(Third Naval District) 
Naval hospital. Saint Albans, New York: Ten units of family hous-
ing, $152,000. 
(Fourth Naval District) 
Naval shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Twenty-five units of 
family housing, $321,300. 
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Naval hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Ten units of family 
housing, $152,000. 
(Fifth Naval District) 
Naval hospital, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: Fifty units of fam-
ily housing, $642,500. 
Marine Corps air facility, New River, North Carolina: Thirty-five 
units of family housing, $473,300. 
Naval hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia : Ten units of family housing, 
$152,000. 
Naval mine depot, Yorktown, Virginia (Skitfes Creek Annex) : Five 
units of family housing, $91,200. 
(Sixth Naval District) 
Naval air station, Cecil Field, Florida: Ninety units of family 
housing, $1,192,200. 
Naval hospital, Jacksonville, Florida : Thirty units of family hous-
ing, $397,300. 
Naval air station. Key West, Florida: Twenty units of family hous-
ing, $273,900. 
Naval station. Key West, Florida: Eighty units of family housing, 
$1,044,500. 
Naval mine countermeasures station, Panama City, Florida: 
Twenty-five units of family housing, $343,100. 
Naval hospital, Pensacola, Florida: Twenty-five units of family 
housing, $321,300. 
Naval supply corps school, Athens, Georgia: Thirty units of fam-
ily housing, $456,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station, Glynco, Georgia: Eighty units of fam-
ily housing, $1,058,600. 
Naval construction battalion center. Gulf port, Mississippi: Seven 
units of family housing, $102,100. 
Marine Corps auxiliary air station, Beaufort, South Carolina: One 
hundred and seventy-five units of family housing $2,305,600. 
Naval hospital, Beaufort, South Carolina: Fifty units of family 
housing, $654,300. 
(Eighth Naval District) 
Naval auxiliary air station, Chase Field, Texas: Eighty units of 
family housing, $1,073,400. 
(Eleventh Naval District) 
Naval amphibious base, Coronado, California: Two units of familv 
housing, $47,300. 
Naval air station, Miramar, California: Fifteen units of family 
housing, $204,500. 
Naval hospital, San Diego, California: Ten units of family housing, 
$152,000. 
(Twelfth Naval District) 
Naval hospital, Oakland, California: Ten units of family housing, 
$152,000. 
Naval supply center, Oakland, California: Ten units of family 
bousing, $152,000. 
Naval communication station, Skaggs Island, California: Fifty 
units of family housing, $666,000. 
Naval auxiliary air station, Fallon, Nevada: Sixty units of family 
housing, $787,500. 
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MARINE CORPS FACILITIES 
Marine Corps depot of supplies, Albany, Georgia: One hundred 
units of family housing, $1,339,800. 
Marine Corps supply annex, Barstow, California: One unit of 
family housing, $27,000. 
Marine Corps recruit depot, San Diego, California: Twelve units 
of family housing, $173,400. 
Marine Corps school, Quantico, Virginia: Three hundred units of 
family housing, $4,121,700. 
OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
(Atlantic Ocean Area) 
Naval station, Argentia, Newfoundland: Forty-five units of family 
housing, $595,100. 
Naval base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: One hundred units of family 
housing, $1,379,000. 
(Pacific Ocean Area) 
Naval station, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands: One hundred and 
seventy-five units of family housing, $2,289,100. 
Marine Corps barracks, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii: Two 
units of family housing, $30,400. 
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SEC. 202. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized further to develop 
naval installations and facilities by providing family housing for 
personnel of the military departments and their dependents by the 
rehabilitation of public works, which include appurtenances, utilities, 
and equipment, in a total amount of $1,218,300: Provided, That in his 
discretion the Secretary of the Navy may utilize the authorization 
contained in this section to provide family housing by the construction 
or installation of public works, which include site preparation, appur-
tenances, utilities, equipment and acquisition of land, at locations to 
be determined by him. 
Such family housing shall be in addition to, 
but shall not exceed 5 per centum of, the total number of units author-
ized by section 201 of this Act, but the average cost of such additional 
units shall not exceed $12,500. 
TITLE I I I 
Air Force. 
gj,c. 301. The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized further to 
develop Air Force installations and facilities by providing family 
housing for personnel of the military departments and their depend-
ents by the construction or installation of public works, which include 
site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, equipment, and the acquisi-
tion of land as follows: 
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 
(Strategic Air Command) 
Sedalia Air Force Base, Missouri: Four hundred units of family 
housing, $5,364,000. 
Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma: Three hundred and sixty units 
of family housing, $4,827,600. 
Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska: Four hundred units of family 
housing, $5,364,000. 
Smoky Hill Air Force Base, Kansas: Two hundred and eighty units 
of family housing, $3,754,800. 
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Dow Air Force Base, Maine: Three hundred units of family hous-
ing, $4,023,000. 
Lake Charles Air Force Base, Louisiana: Two hundred units of 
family housing, $2,682,000. 
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona: Five units of family hous-
ing, $108,000. 
Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington: Five units of family hous-
ing, $108,000. 
Great Falls Air Force Base, Montana: Four units of family housing, 
$87,750. 
Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia: Five units of family housing, 
$108,000. 
Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi: Thirty units of family hous-
ing, $402,300. 
Larson Air Force Base, Washington: Five units of family housing, 
$108,000. 
Limestone Air Force Base, Maine: Four units of family housing, 
$87,750. 
Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio: Four units of family housing, 
$87,750. 
Mather Air Force Base, California: Four units of family housing, 
$87,750. 
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho: Four units of family hous-
ing, $81,000. 
Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada: Five units of family housing, 
$108,000. 
Travis Air Force Base, California: Six units of family housing, 
$128,250. 
(Air Defense Command) 
Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York: One hundred units of 
family housing, $1,341,000. 
Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts: Two hundred units of family 
housing, $2,682,000. 
Newcastle County Airport, Delaware: One hundred units of family 
housing, $1,341,000. 
Truax Air Force Base, Wisconsin: One hundred units of family 
housing, $1,341,000. 
Kinross Air Force Base, Michigan: Ninety units of family housing, 
$1,206,900. 
Paine Air Force Base, Washington: Seventy units of family hous-
ing, $938,700. 
Oxnard Air Force Base, California: Seventy units of family hous-
ing, $938,700. 
Ent Air Force Base, Colorado: Ninety units of family housing, 
$1,206,900. 
Youngstown Municipal Airport, Ohio: Fifty units of family hous-
ing, $670,500. 
Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania: Fifty units of family 
housing, $670,500. 
Niagara Municipal Airport, New York: Fifty units of family 
housing, $670,500. 
Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport, Minnesota: Seventy units of 
family housing, $938,700. 
Duluth Municipal Airport, Minnesota: One hundred units of family 
housing, $1,341,000. 
Geiger Field, Washington: Fifty units of family housing, $670,500. 
Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa: Fifty units of family housing, 
$670,500. 
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Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine: Fifty units of family housing, 
$670,500. 
McGee-Tyson Airport, Tennessee: Fifty units of family housing, 
$670,500. 
Portland International Airport, Oregon: Sixty units of family hous-
ing, $804,600. 
Minot area. North Dakota: Sixty-five units of family housing, 
$871,650. 
Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan: Fifty units of family housing, 
$670,500. 
(Tactical Air Command) 
Clovis Air Force Base, New Mexico: One hundred and seventy units 
of family housing, $2,279,700. 
Hurlburt Air Force Base, Florida: Two hundred and seventy-five 
units of family housing, $3,687,750. 
Foster Air Force Base, Texas: Two hundred units of family housing, 
$2,682,000. 
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey: Five units of family housing, 
$108,000. 
Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina: Five units of family housing, 
$108,000. 
(Air Training Command) 
Luke Air Force Base, Arizona: One hundred and twenty-five units 
of family housing, $1,676,250. 
Laredo Air Force Base, Texas: One hundred units of family housing, 
$1,341,000. 
Gary Air Force Base, Texas: One hundred units of family housing, 
$1,341,000. 
Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas: One hundred and fifty units of 
family housing, $2,011,500. 
Greenville x\^ir Force Base, Mississippi: One hundred and twenty 
units of family housing, $1,609,200. 
Moody Air Force Base, Georgia: One hundred and forty units of 
family housing, $1,877,400. 
Stead Air Force Base, Nevada: Ninety units of family housing, 
$1,206,900. 
McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas: One hundred and fifty units of 
family housing, $2,011,500. 
Webb Air Force Base, Texas: Eighty-five units of family housing, 
$1,139,850. 
Parks Air Force Base, California: Eighty-five units of family hous-
ing, $1,139,850. 
(Military Air Transport Service) 
Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina: Four hundred and fifty 
units of family housing, $6,034,500. 
(Continental Air Command) 
Beale Air Force Base, California: Two hundred and twenty-five 
units of family housing, $3,017,250. 
(Research and Development Command) 
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico: Five units of family hous-
ing, $108,000. 
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TITLE IV 
SEC. 401. The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are 
respectively authorized to proceed with the further development of 
military, naval, and Air Force installations and facilities as author-
ized by titles I, II, and I I I of this Act without regard to the provi-
sions of sections 1136, 3648, and 3734, as respectively amended, of the 
Bevised Statutes, and prior to approval of title to underlying land, 
as provided by section 355, as amended, of the Revised Statutes. The 
authority to provide family housing by the construction or installa-
tion of public works shall include authority to acquire lands and 
rights and interests thereto or therein, including the temporary use 
thereof, by donation, purchase, exchange of Government-owned lands, 
or otherwise. 
SEC. 402. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed 
$175,000,000 to carry out the purposes of titles I, II, and III, and not 
to exceed $15,000,000 to carry out the purposes of section 408 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 403. Any of the approximate costs enumerated in titles I, II, 
and I I I of this Act may, in the discretion of the Secretary concerned, 
be varied upward by 10 per centufh, but the total of all costs shall not 
exceed the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Act. 
SEC. 404. Not to exceed two hundred and fifty of the units of family 
quarters constructed under the authority of titles I, II, and I I I of this 
Act shall have a net floor area of not to exceed two thousand and one 
hundred square feet. None of the other family quarters authorized to 
be constructed by this Act shall have a net floor area in excess of one 
thousand two hundred and fifty square feet, and the average net floor 
area of all of such other family quarters shall not exceed one thousand 
and eighty square feet. 
SEC. 405. Appropriation made to carry out the purpose of this Act 
shall be available for expenses incident to construction or rehabili-
tation work authorized by this Act, including administration, over-
head, planning, and supervision. 
SEC. 406. Whenever— 
(a) the President determines that compliance with the re-
quirements of Public Law 245, Eighty-second Congress, in the 
case of contracts made pursuant to this Act with respect to the 
establishment or development of military installations and facil-
ities 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, the President is authorized to exempt 
such contracts from the requirements of Public Law 245, Eighty-
second Congress. 
SEC. 407. The Secretary of Defense is authorized, subject to the 
approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to construct, 
or acquire by lease or otherwise, family housing, in addition to family 
housing otherwise authorized to be constructed or acquired by the 
Department of Defense in foreign countries, to the value of $25,000,000 
through the use of foreign currencies in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act 
of 1954 (Public Law 480, Eighty-third Congress). 
The Department of Defense shall reimburse the Commodity Credit 
Corporation in a dollar amount equivalent to the value of the foreign 
currencies used during any fiscal year pursuant to the authority con-
tained in this section. 
For the purpose of such reimbursement, the 
10 u s e 1339; 31 
u s e 529; 40 USe 
259. 
33 u s e 733. 
^jpropri ation. 
Net floor areas. 
A d m i n i strative 
funds, etc. 
65 Stat. 700. 
41 u s e 254, 153. 
U s e 
of foreign 
currencies. 
Ante, p. 454. 
R e i m bursement 
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Reports to Con-
gress. 
Trailers. 
Department of Defense may utilize appropriations otherwise avail-
able for the payment of quarters allowances for military personnel. 
The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Committees on Armed 
Services of the Senate and the House of Eepresentatives a quarterly 
report, the first of which shall be submitted three months subsequent 
to the date of enactment *of this Act, setting forth the cost, number, 
and location of housing units constructed or acquired pursuant to the 
authority contained in this section during the three-month period pre-
ceding the date of such report, and setting forth the cost, number, and 
location of the housing units intended to be constructed or acquired 
pursuant to such authority during the next succeeding quarter. 
SEC. 408. The Secretaries of the military departments are authorized 
to acquire a total of not to exceed five thousand units of trailers which 
may be made available at locations both inside and outside continental 
United States for occupancy by military personnel and their depend-
ents on a rental basis without loss of any allowances for quarters. 
Approved September 1, 1954. 
September 1, 1954 
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Public Law 766 
CHAPTER 1211 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to establish and 
operate motor vehicle pools and systems and to provide office furniture and 
furnishinj?s when agencies are moved to new locations, to direct the Admin-
istrator to report the unauthorized use of Government motor vehicles, and 
to authorize the United States Civil Service Commission to regulate operators 
of Government-owned motor vehicles, and for other purposes. 
Federal Property 
and Admini strative 
S e r v i c e s Act of 
1949, amendments, 
40 u s e 471. 
Motor 
v e h i c l e 
pools. 
40 u s e 491. 
D e t e rminations 
by Administrator. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2 of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 
378), is amended by adding after the comma following the words 
"traffic management" the following: "establishment of pools or sys-
tems for transportation of Government personnel and property by 
motor vehicle within specific areas,". 
SEC. 2. The text of section 211 of the Federal Property and Admin-
istrative Services Act of 1949, as added by the Act of September 5, 
1950 (64 Stat. 583), is amended to read as follows: 
" (a) In order to carry out the policy, expressed in section 2 of this 
Act, to provide for an economical and efficient system for transporta-
tion of Government personnel and property, it is further intended by 
the Congress in enacting this section to (1) provide for the proper 
identification of Government motor vehicles; (2) establish effective 
means of limiting their use to official governmental purposes; (3) 
reduce the number of Government-owned vehicles to the minimum 
necessary for transaction of the public business; (4) provide wherever 
practicable for centrally operated interagency pools or systems for 
local transportation of Government personnel and property; and (5) 
establish procedures to insure safe operation of motor vehicles on Gov-
ernment Dusiness. 
"(b) Subject to regulations issued by the President pursuant to 
subsection (c), the Administrator shall in respect of executive agen-
cies, and to the extent that he determines that so doing is advantageous 
to the Government in terms of economy, efficiency, or service, after 
consultation with and with due regard to the program activities of 
the agencies concerned, (1) consolidate, take over, acquire, or arrange 
for the operation by any executive agency of, motor vehicles and other 
related equipment and supplies for the purpose of establishing motor 
vehicle pools and systems to serve the needs of executive agencies; and