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66 S T A T. ]

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PUBLIC LAW 547-JULY 15, 1952

25, 1939 (34 U.S.C. 556); $361,254,840, to remain available until expended. Naval Supply School, Athens, Georgia, rehabilitation of existing facilities and new construction, $2,030,000.

S3 Stat. S9i.

DEPARTMENT OF THE A I R FORCE ACQUISITION A N D CONSTRUCTION OF REAL PROPERTY

For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or permanent public works, military installations, and facilities for the Air Force, as authorized by the Act of March 30, 1949 (63 Stat. 17), the Act of October 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 936), as amended, the Act of June 17, 1950 (Public Law 564, Eighty-first Congress), the Act of January 6, 1951 (Public Law 910, Eighty-first Congress), the Act of September 28, 1951 (Public Law 155, Eighty-second Congress), and the Act of , 1952 (Public Law —, H. R. 8120, Eighty-second Congress), without regard to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and the land, and interests therein, may be acquired and construction may be prosecuted thereon prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; not to exceed $52,620,000 for planning (including advance planning, master planning, and investigational engineering) as authorized by section 504 of said Act of September 28, 1951; and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $1,200,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of these funds shall be expended for actual construction of facilities or structures at Grandview Air Terminal, Missouri, until the city of Kansas City, Missouri, has conveyed to the United States Government the fee simple title to all lands required for the base or has given the United States Government at least a twenty-five-year lease to such land on a nominal rental basis. SEC. 802. None of the funds appropriated in this title shall be expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work where cost estimates exceed $25,000 to be performed within the continental United States without the specific approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense setting forth the reasons therefor. SEC. 803. None of the funds appropriated in this title shall be expended for additional costs involved in expediting construction: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense, or his designee for the purpose, shall establish a reasonable completion date for each project, taking into consideration the type and location of the project, the climatic and seasonal conditions affecting the construction and the application of economical construction practices. Any appropriation available to the Department of Defense shall be available for mustering-out payments as authorized by law. SEC. 804. No part of the funds made available by this or any other Act of the present Congress shall be used for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, laundry, or dry-cleaning facilities in the United States, its Territories or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify, in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at reasonable rates. SEC. 805. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used to expand the facilities of the Department of the Air Force to estab-

64 Stat. 1221.

236,

65 Stat. 336. Ante, p. 606. 10 USC 1339; 40 u s e 259, 267.

33 USC 733 and note.

31 USC 723.

Cost-plus-af i x e d - f e e contract.

Costa of expediting construction.

Bakery, laundry f a c i l i t i e s, etc.

Separate system of supplies.