ADDITIONAL PROJECTS REQUEST Senator YOUNG. There will be placed in the record a request for additional projects by the Department of Defense. The request includes projects for Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, and $1,900,000 in planning and design for the Department of Defense. (The request and attachments follow:) THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SEP 16 1972 Honorable Mike Mansfield Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Construction Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: The need for certain urgent military construction projects totalling $13.8 million has recently become known and we are submitting these projects for consideration as part of your FY 1973 Military Construction Appropriation action. We propose that these projects be considered for financing as substitutions for a like dollar amount of items deleted by authorization action from our FY 1973 Military Construction request. In addition, reprogramming of Military Construction funds presently available is being sought in order to fund deficiency authorization for one Air Force project in the FY 1973 Authorization request. Justification data for these projects are attached. These The following Navy facilities were destroyed by fires. have been approved for replacement under the authority contained in 10 USC 2673: Also, the Navy requests substitution of the following deficiency authorization item proposed for insertion by the Congress in the FY 1973 Authorization Act: Naval Shipyard Mare Island, San Francisco, Dry Dock No. 1 improvements $ 605,000 The Air Force has the following project which has been approved under the emergency authority of section 303, Public Law 92-145: Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico $5,656,000 The Defense Agencies require additional planning and design funds to support legislation now in progress: Defense Agencies Planning and design $1,900,000 Approval by your Committee of the above substitutions of $6,235,000 for the Navy, $5,656,000 for the Air Force and $1,900,000 for Defense Agencies is requested. In addition, the Air Force requires approval in order to reprogram funds in the amount of $546,000 within Military Construction funds presently available to the Air Force. This reprogramming request is made in order that the Air Force can fund the deficiency authorization for Williams Air Force Base contained in the FY 1973 Military Construction Authorization Request. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY Emergency Appropriation Installation: Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland Authorization for the Academic/General Instruction Building is derived from 10 USC 2673, Restoration of Damaged Facilities. Restoration of academic training and general instruction spaces lost through fire on 6 February 1972 is required at the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) to enable a tenant organization, the Naval Special Services Administrative Activity (NSSAA), to continue vital instructional programs. Restoration is proposed in the form of a new training building of scope similar to training space destroyed by the fire. NSSAA is responsible for specialized training of Navy and Marine Corps personnel serving in supervisory positions throughout the Navy in Officer and EM Mess management, BEQ management, non-appropriated fund accounting, and recreation management and bookkeeping. Building to also support NATC supervisory management and career development training needs, and night classes in off-campus college programs conducted at this remote location. NSSAA training was begun at this location in 1962, and was expanded in September 1971 to consolidate training of this type at a single location. As a result of the fire, courses have been curtailed and a temporary operation has been set up in an old galley, only 1/3 rd the size needed. Prior to the fire, 4 mess management courses, plus NATC management courses, trained 800 students per year, with approximately 150 students in training at all times. Navy plans to introduce 3 additional courses in the BEQ mess and recreation management field, such that the annual output of students will increase to 2,000 students. proposed facility will support this additional training load. The If this restoration is not approved, Navy's plan to train personnel in present and newly devised management, accounting and operating procedures in the field of bachelor housing, mess and recreation management, and non-appropriated fund accounting will be severely constrained. Justifications Authorization for the Messhall is derived from 10 USC 2673, Restoration of Damaged Facilities. Funding is needed in FY 1973 to permit restoration of this facility, important to the morale and welfare of bachelor enlisted personnel assigned to this installation. The major function of the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, is support of aviation units, equiped with the P-3, land-based, patrol aircraft, engaged in all weather, anti-submarine warfare operations. Support of the Naval Air Rework Facility is another prime function. Fire completely destroyed an existing EM dining facility on 11 July 1971. A replacement mess hall is urgently required, to be centrally located in proximity to the new enlisted quarters, patrol squadron hangars and work areas and the new applied training building. Prior to the fire, two 30-year old, substandard mes shalls, separated by 1 1/2 miles, were in use serving the NATTC student quarters area and the base operating area. Having lost their messing facility (Bldg 551, 36,817 SF) NATTC students are now being bussed to the remaining mess hall (Bldg 4, 39,119 SF). However, this operation is entirely unsatisfactory due both to travel distance and the deteriorated conditions in Building 4, wherein food preparation equipment is outdated, ventilation is inadequate, and refrigeration equipment, power supply, and interior finishes require urgent repairs. The estimated cost of restoring Building 4 to minimum adequacy is $538,000, however many shortcomings cannot be corrected such as high maintenance of the 30-year old structure, inefficient layout and poor location with respect to quarters and work areas. With the projected phase-out of the NATTC students and the concurrent influx of patrol squadrons in the near future, the station's messing requirement will settle in the range of 2,200 to 2,900 men per meal. The patrol squadron training and operating area, and site of a new enlisted quarters facility, is being developed, per the master plan, on a site roughly mid-way between the two old mess halls. The logical course to pursue, as proposed in this replacement project, is the construction of a new mess hall of adequate capacity to serve the entire station load, centrally located with respect to living and working The modern and more efficient food preparation and serving equipment to be used in the new mess hall will provide the required capacity a building of 24,528 SF area, whereas the building destroyed by fire was over 36,000 SF in area. areas. with Building 4 mess hall, which is located within the NARF industrial area, will be decommissioned as a mess and transferred to the NARF for use in satisfying current space deficiencies. |