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PUBLIC LAW 89-568-SEPT. 12, 1966
days prior to initial obligation of funds therefor to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. SEC. 613. Section 611 of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1966 (79 Stat. 818), is amended to read as follows: " (a) No camp, post, station, base, yard, or other installation under the authority of the Department of Defense shall be closed or abandoned until the expiration of thirty days of continuous session of the Congress following the date on which the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department makes a full report of the facts including the justification for such proposed action to the Congress. " (b) For the purposes of subparagraph (a) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die; but in the computation of the thirty-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain. "(c) This section shall apply only to posts, camps, stations, bases, yards, or other installations tnat are located in the United States and Puerto Rico and have a total military and civilian complement of more than two hundred and fifty. I t shall not apply to any facility used primarily for river and harbor projects or flood control projects." SEC. 614. The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to make a comprehensive study with respect to the desirability of (1) transferring the Defense Language Institute from the Washington, D.C. area to the lands formerly constituting Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, and (2) demolishing the four existing piers at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts, and constructing three new piers and carrying out related operations associated therewith at such shipyard. The Secretary shall report the findings of such study, together with such recommendations as he deems appropriate, to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later than six months after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 615. Titles I, II, III, IV, V, and VI of this Act may be cited as the "Military Construction Authorization Act, 1967".
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TITLE VII RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES
SEC. 701. Subject to chapter 133 of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of Defense may establish or develop additional facilities for the Reserve Forces, including the acquisition of land therefor, but the cost of such facilities shall not exceed— (1) for the Department of the Navy: Naval and Marine Corps Reserves, $5,000,000. (2) for Department of the Air Force: (a) Air National Guard of the United States, $8,900,000. (b) Air Force Reserve, $3,300,000. SEC. 702. The Secretary of Defense may establish or develop installations and facilities under this title without regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529), and sections 4774 (d) and 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code. The authority to place permanent or temporary improvements on land includes authority for surveys, administration, overhead, planning, and supervision incident to construction. That authority may be exercised before title to the land is approved under section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. 255), and even though the land is held temporarily. The authority to acquire real estate or land includes
pa^mtTeIu!" thorization Act, ^^^^J^ g^^^ ^20 10 USC 2231.'
thor°ity.*"*'°" ^"' waiver of re^t^ictions. ^^^^ Stat. 269.
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