Dean, Alan L., Assistant Secretary of Administration, Department of Smith, Adm. Willard J., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard; accom- (III) 135 8 11 COAST GUARD APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZATION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1968 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10:10 a.m. in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, the Honorable E. L. Bartlett (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Bartlett and Griffin. OPENING STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN Senator BARTLETT. The committee will be in order. The subcommittee is meeting this morning to consider S. 3034 and H.R. 15224 bills to authorize appropriations for procurements of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard. H.R. 15224, as introduced in the House of Representatives is identical to the Senate measure, but the House committee amended the bill to include two additional high-endurance cutters. That bill passed the House with that amendment. Copies of the bills and the letter of transmittal from the Secretary of Transportation and a memorandum summarizing the various provisions of the bill will be placed in the hearing record. (The material referred to follows:) [S. 3034, 90th Cong., second sess.] A BILL To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1969 for the use of the Coast Guard as follows: VESSELS For procurement, extension of service life, and increasing capability of vessels, $38,904,000. A. Procurement: (1) one high-endurance cutter; (2) one oceanographic cutter; (3) one coastal buoy tender; (4) one ferryboat; and (5) one river tender and barge. B. Increasing capability: (1) install generators and air conditioning on five seagoing buoy tenders; (2) improve habitability on two coastal buoy tenders; (3) install air conditioning on one coastal buoy tender; and (4) install balloon tracking radar on two high-endurance cutters and modify balloon tracking radar installation on one high-endurance cutter. Staff member assigned to this hearing: Stanley H. Barer. C. Extension of service life: (1) improve icebreakers; and (2) increase fuel capacity and improve habitability on high-endurance cutters. AIRCRAFT For procurement of aircraft, $14,636,000. (1) nine medium-range helicopters. CONSTRUCTION For establishment or development of installations and facilities by acquisition, construction, conversion, extension, or installation of permanent or temporary public works, including the preparation of sites and furnishing of appurtenances, utilities, and equipment for the following, $47,660,000. (1) Depot, Greenville, Mississippi: Barracks, messing, and operations building; garage; mooring facilities; (2) Moorings, Natchez, Mississippi: Mooring facilities; (3) Station, Siuslaw River, Florence, Oregon: Barracks, messing, operations, and administration building; (4) Station, Hobucken, North Carolina: Barracks, messing, operations, and administration building; convert existing building to garage and storage building, improve facilities; (5) Moorings, Juneau, Alaska: Enlarge existing building to provide additional space for electronic spares shipping and receiving area, office space and other purposes; (6) Station, Point Allerton, Hull, Massachusetts: Barracks, messing, operations, and administration building; garage and workshop building; mooring facilities; helicopter pad; (7) Station, Grays Harbor, Westport, Washington: Barracks, messing, operations, and administration building; (8) Station, Port Aransas, Texas: Repair and replace waterfront facilities; (9) Loran Station, Cape San Blas, Gulf County, Florida: Barracks building; convert existing building for messing and recreation spaces; enlarge loran building, garage, and storage building; (10 Station, Bayfield, Wisconsin: Barracks, messing, and operations building, pier facilities; (11) Air Station, Mobile, Alabama: Barracks, BOQ, and messing building; training, recreational, and exchange facilities, hangar space conversion; (12) Station, Cape Charles City, Virginia: Barracks, messing, and operations building; mooring facilities, helicopter pad; (13) Station, Annapolis, Maryland: Barracks, messing, and operations building; mooring facilities; (14) Western Long Island Sound Development: (i) Station, New Haven, Connecticut: Barracks, messing, operations, and administration building; mooring facilities; (ii) Station, Eatons Neck, New York: Recondition barracks, operations, and administration building; improve waterfront facilities; and (iii) Station, Fort Totten, New York: Recondition barracks, messing, administration, and work-storage facilities; (15) Base, Portsmouth, Virginia: Dredging, bulkheading, site development, utilities; (16) Station, San Francisco, California: Barracks building, administration building, subsistence building, waterfront facilities; (17) Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland: Modify buildings as necessary to provide for consolidation of metal trades; (18) Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Barracks and messing facilities, waterfront facilities renewal; (19) Base, Honolulu, Hawaii: Dock construction; (20) Base, Galveston, Texas: Sewage system; (21) Base, New York, Governors Island, New York: Sewage system; (22) Station, Portsmouth Harbor, Newcastle, New Hampshire: Mooring facilities; garage and workshop buildings; (23) Various locations: Aids to navigation projects including, where necessary, planning and acquisition of sites; (24) Arkansas River: Aids to navigation to complete marking of river; (25) Various locations: Automation of manned light stations; (26) Various locations: Replace lightships with very large buoys; |