1 SEC. 802. The Secretary of Defense may establish or 2 develop installations and facilities under this title without 3 regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended 4 (31 U.S.C. 529), and sections 4774 (d) and 9774(d) of 5 title 10, United States Code. The authority to place perman6 ent or temporary improvements on lands includes authority 7 for surveys, administration, overhead, planning, and super8 vision incident to construction. That authority may be exer9 vised before title to the land is approved under section 355 of 10 the Revised Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. 255), and even 11 though the land is held temporarily. The authority to acquire 12 real estate or land includes authority to make surveys and 13 to acquire land, and interests in land (including temporary 14 use), by gift, purchase, exchange of Government-owned land, 15 or otherwise.

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SEC. 803. This title may be cited as the "Reserve Forces

17 Facilities Authorization Act, 1972."

Senator SYMINGTON. The hearing will come to order.

Mr. Secretary, we welcome you this morning. We are going to have a vote fairly soon so there will be some delay but we will proceed. This morning we are meeting to begin hearings on the military construction authorization bill for fiscal year 1972. Again, as we have for the past several years, we are meeting in joint session with the Subcommittee on Military Construction of the Appropriations Committee, of which Senator Mansfield is the Chairman.

To summarize briefly, the bill as introduced in the Senate contains a total authorization request for $2,262,610,000 consisting of $2,259,444,000 in new authority and an increase in authority granted in prior years of $3,166,000. This is approximately $181 million above the amount requested last year. This increase is primarily due to the additional emphasis being placed on housing for both bachelor and married personnel as well as increases for pollution abatement and Reserve Forces facilities. Of the total request, $126.6 million is designated for locations outside the United States which includes $20 million for NATO infrastructure; $129.9 million for air and water pollution abatement; $274 million for bachelor housing; and $919.2 million for military family housing which includes the construction of 9,684 new units.

Again this year the full committee has deemed it advisable to transfer all construction relating either directly or indirectly to the Safeguard antiballistic missile system from this bill to the military procurement bill to permit the consideration of all funds relating to this system en bloc. This includes $172.5 million for general construction: $11.7 million for 430 new units of family housing to be located at the Montana and North Dakota sites; and a $400,000 increase in the authority granted previously for 400 units of housing at these sites which was authorized in fiscal year 1970. Since the requirements for Safeguard system have previously been considered by the full committee, they are not being further considered by this committee. The justification books containing around 620 line items at some 270 major bases have been carefully reviewed and we will address ourselves only to those projects we consider to be of major importance. The printed record, however, will clearly reflect the justification for each line item.

As we proceed, we will expect each witness to emphasize any project he considers of particular importance. At the conclusion of the open testimony of each of the services, an executive session will be held if needed to consider classified items.

Our first witness today will be the Honorable Barry J. Shillito, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Logistics. While he and his staff are present, we will take up any changes proposed in title VII of the bill which relates to the general provisions. I am confident Mr. Shillito's testimony will be sufficient to prepare us to proceed then directly into the line item justifications with the representatives of the various services, beginning with title III, the Air Force portion of the bill.

You may proceed, Secretary Shillito.

STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE BARRY J. SHILLITO, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (INSTALLATIONS AND LOGISTICS)

Mr. SHILLITO. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I would like to suggest, if I might, that I brief my statement and attempt to cover the highlights as best as I can and then allow as much time as possible for the questions that you might care to raise.

During my appearance today, I would like to discuss in general terms what the fiscal year 1972 program contains and compare that request with previous programs. I would like to let you know where we stand with respect to some special items which have been of wide interest to the Congress and to these committees in particular.

The fiscal year 1972 request would provide new authorizations in the amount of $2,259.4 million, as compared with DOD requests for $1,893.3 million in fiscal year 1970 and $2,069.1 million in fiscal year 1971. Actual enactments in these 2 prior years totaled $1,639.7 million and $2,001.2 million, respectively. The increase in requested fiscal year 1972 authorizations over the amount requested in fiscal years 1970 and 1971, is due primarily to additional emphasis on housing for both bachelor and married personnel as well as increases for pollution abatement and Reserve Forces facilities.

This year we are requesting no authorization or appropriations for military construction in support of operations in Southeast Asia. Of the $2.9 billion in military construction appropriations previously provided, $1.1 billion was for Southeast Asia support construction in the United States and Pacific areas, and $1.8 billion has been assigned to Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Within this, $315 million has been programed for the improvement and modernization of the Vietnamese Armed Forces. We have scheduled the orderly termination of construction by the contractor combine, Raymond, Morrison-Knudsen, Brown, Root and Jones for July 1, 1972.

We are requesting a sum of $15 million for the Secretary of Defense for unforeseen construction requirements of an urgent and critical

nature.

This fund will be used to provide those reserves necessary to meet unforeseen requirements in utheast Asia and will provide a necessary flexible resource for the Secretary of Defense.

A comparison of this year's proposed authorization with similar authorizations enacted for the 2 prior years is shown on page 3 of my

statement.

For the Safeguard system this year, we are requesting $172.5 million in fiscal year 1972 military construction authorization, exclusive of family housing, to continue our progress toward defense of Minuteman as defined in the modified deployment program announced last year. This amount, which is a substantial reduction from last year's request of $334 million, includes $167.3 million for construction of tactical facilities, and $5.2 million for community impact assistance in North Dakota and Montana. We are also requesting within the Department of Defense family housing program $11.1 million of authorization to provide an additional 215 housing units each at Grand Forks, N. Dak., and Malmstrom, Mont.

As was outlined in the Defense posture statement of the Secretary of Defense, this authorization would be designed to provide an option for protecting either the Minuteman field at Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., or establishment of the National Command Authority at Washington, D.C., in addition to the continuation of work at Grand Forks, Malmstrom and Whiteman.

Senator YOUNG. When you talk about Grand Forks, you are talking about the ABM base and not the big Air Force base?

Mr. SHILLITO. Yes, sir.

The details of the Safeguard element of our military construction program can be discussed by Department of the Army witnesses when they appear to present the Army program.

PROJECT SELECTION

The selection of projects included in the proposed fiscal year 1972 military construction authorization has been accomplished in accordance with 5-year Defense programing procedures, and has been subjected to detailed review by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The construction proposals contained in this program cover over 270 major bases and approximately 620 separate line items. I have prepared a summary which is included as an attachment to this statement. The attachment also includes a description of the general content and major items included in each of the nine facility categories used by the Department of Defense.

There are several special areas of the construction program which are of interest to the members of these committees and I would like to discuss these in some details.

The family housing new construction program for fiscal year 1972 consists of 9,684 new units as compared to 8,000 last year and 4,800 units in fiscal year 1970. The improvements and alterations program for existing public quarters amounts to $32.7 million as compared to $19.2 million for fiscal year 1971. This amounts to $919.2 million authorization request as compared to $804.2 million authorized last year. We consider this increased program vitally needed in order that our service personnel and their families may be adequately housed and our inventory of family housing may be continuously upgraded to eliminate obsolescence.

The Federal Housing Administration acting for HUD agreed to provide an initial program of up to 5,000 units of low rent housing for military families, subsidized by FHA under the provisions of section 236 of the National Housing Act, subject to availability of fiscal year 1971 appropriations. Legislation authorizing FHA to stipulate military preference in section 236 projects was enacted December 31, 1970. A memorandum of agreement between Defense and HUD was executed in March and implementing instructions to the field have been promulgated by both agencies.

EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT AT GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE

We are pleased to inform the committees that construction of these 200 units is proceeding on schedule. As expected, we have already learned some lessons. As the project proceeds, we become more con

fident that substantial savings-both in dollars and particularly in the rate of productivity-can be gained in selected future projects based on this system, and that the system will have applicability to the private housing market as well. Mr. Fliakas will go into greater detail on this subject when he presents his statement to the committee.

BASE REALINEMENTS

In October 1969 and March 1970, the Department of Defense announced details of 678 specific actions to consolidate, reduce, realine or close military activities and installations in the United States and abroad.

Based upon current determination of essential Defense program and personnel requirements as reflected in the fiscal year 1972 budget and in anticipation of favorable congressional action on the fiscal year 1972 funds requested, we have no plans for any further major base closure or major reduction actions in the United States. However, there will be a need to make essential force realinements in order to better position our forces; to make adjustments caused by our reduced training and force requirements resulting from our redeployment from Southeast Asia; to take certain actions as a result of force modernization; and to make normal prudent management adjustments in order to streamline operations and reduce overhead.

During early March 1971, the services and the Defense Supply Agency informed the Congress of a number of base realinement actions being implemented for the reasons I have stated above. These actions involved the reduction and realinement of Army and Air Force air defense activities; Air Force SAC B-52 and associated tanker support realinements; adjustments in Air Force airlift units; the realinement of Air Force air rescue units and other miscellaneous activities. Some Navy squadrons have been announced for repositioning and some for inactivation. A number of Navy ships have also been announced for inactivation. The Army, as part of its force level reduction has also announced the inactivation of certain military units.

A number of base closures were included in the various service announcements. The most significant bases which will be closed are Perrin Air Force Base, Tex., and Clinton County Air Force Base, Ohio.

The Department of Defense continues to recognize its responsibility for the application of sound management principles which will insure the conservation, preservation, and protection of all natural resources at installations under its jurisdiction.

To that end, 238 cooperative agreements have been developed between the military installation commanders, the State agency involved, and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. These arrangements cover over 19 million of 28.9 million acres of land and water that we control. Nearly 4 million visitors last year took advantage of the recreational opportunities offered at the 90 major installations open to public hunting and fishing and other recreational use. New timber production has been fostered on over 2,300,000 acres of Defense land.

Our conservation and natural resources programs have been totally financed by the sale of hunting and fishing permits by the military installations as authorized by Public Law 86-797.