PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 47-JUNE 16, 1948 Supplementary naval radio activity, Wahiawa, Hawaii: Permanent facilities for supplemental radio activity and accessories; $3,000,000. For correction of deficiencies in existing or approved facilities, for emergency projects authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, and repairs incident to casualties thereto outside the continental United States, for the fiscal years 1948 and 1949; $3,000,000. Acquisitionoflands. SEc.2. To accomplish the above authorized construction the Secre- tary of the Navy is authorized to acquire lands and rights pertaining thereto, or other interests therein, including the temporary use thereof, by donation, purchase, or otherwise. Family quarters. S. 8. Family quarters for personnel of the Navy constructed on or subsequent to the effective date of this Act whether heretofore, herein, or hereafter authorized shall not be of greater net floor area per unit than the following: For flag officers, two thousand one hundred square feet. For captains, one thousand six hundred and seventy square feet. For commanders and lieutenant commanders, one thousand four hundred square feet. For warrant officers, commissioned warrant officers, and commis- sioned officers through the rank of lieutenant, one thousand two hun- dred and fifty square feet. For enlisted personnel and noncommissioned officers, one thousand and eighty square feet. "Not floo rea" For the purposes of this Act, net floor area is defined as all floor space inside the exterior walls, excluding basement (or service space ,Limtaton m for' inlieu of basement), attic, garage, and porches: Provided, That no family quarters for personnel of the Navy shall be constructed with the funds authorized for appropriation herein in excess of a net floor area of one thousand and eighty square feet per unit: Providedfurther That in any case in which the construction at any station of family quarters having a net floor area in excess of one thousand and eighty square feet is prohibited by the provisions of the foregoing proviso, an equal number of family quarters having a net floor area not in excess of one thousand and eighty square feet may be constructed at such station and any funds saved as a result of the construction of such smaller family quarters or as a result of the succeeding proviso may be utilized to construct family quarters having a net floor area not in excess of one thousand and eighty square feet at any Nav station scheduled for retention in the permanent Military Establishment: Type o quarters. Provided further, That family quarters constructed with the funds authorized for appropriation herein shall be of the multiple type (generally eight families to a unit) or apartment type (generally si families to a unit) except where Tropical or desert climates render the use of multiple type dwellings deleterious to health and welfare and except where one, two or three two-family units are necessary to provide the exact number of family quarters authorized herein for construction at a station. The above area allowances shall supersede the limitations contained ostat. 490. in the Act of July 8, 1946 (Public Law 492, Seventy-ninth Con- gress), and may be increased by not to exceed 10 per centum for all quarters outside continental United States and by not to exceed 10 per centum for quarters of commanding officers of stations or installations over and above that to which his rank would entitle him. Civilian quarters. Quarters for civilians shall be limited to conform to the allowances for officers or men of comparable status according to responsibility rating, and pay, as determined by the Secretary of the Navy to be appropriate. ppription SEO. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any ,vp.lOv money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appro. priated, such sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose [62 STAT.
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