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through housing projects which utilize foreign currencies to a value not in excess of $100,000,000 acquired, pursuant to the provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480, Eighty-third Congress) or through other commodity transactions of the Commodity Credit Corporation. "The Department of Defense shall pay the Commodity Credit Corporation, from appropriations otherwise available for the payment of quarters allowances for military personnel for the fiscal year 1956 and each succeeding fiscal year, amounts equal to the quarters allowances otherwise payable to personnel occupying any housing constructed or acquired under authority of this section after deducting amounts chargeable for the maintenance and operation of such housing: Provided, That such payments shall not exceed the dollar equivalent of the value of the foreign currencies used for all such construction or acquisition. "The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives quarterly reports, the first of which shall be submitted three months subsequent to the date of enactment of this Act, setting forth the cost, number, and location of housing units constructed or acquired pursuant to the authority contained in this section during the three-month period preceding the date of such report, and setting forth the cost, number, and location of the housing units intended to be constructed or acquired pursuant to such authority during the next succeeding quarter." SEC. 508. All housing units constructed under the authority of this Act shall be subject to the net floor area permanent limitations pre scribed in the second, third, and fourth provisos of section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 (62 Stat. 375), or in section 3 of the Act of June 16, 1948 (62 Stat. 459), other than the first, second, and third provisos thereof. SEC. 509. The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are respectively authorized to acquire by purchase housing units which are located near military installations, which are adequate and suitable for housing military personnel and their dependents, and as to which a mortgage is insured by the Federal Housing Commissioner pursuant to title VI or title IX of the National Housing Act, subject to the outstanding mortgage thereon, and to assume the payments thereafter becoming due on such mortgage. The Secretary of the military department concerned may utilize appropriations available for the construction of military public works for the liquidation of any outstanding mortgage assumed by the Government. SEC. 510. None of the authority contained in titles I, II, and III of this Act shall be deemed to authorize any building construction project within the continental United States at a unit cost in excess of— (a) $20 per square foot for cold-storage warehousing; (b) $6 per square foot for regular warehousing; (c) $1,700 per man for permanent barracks; (d) $1,400 per man for ten-year-life barracks; or (e) $5,000 per man for bachelor officer quarters, unless the Secretary of Defense determines that, because of special circumstances, application to such project of the limitation on unit costs contained in this section is impracticable. SEC. 511. As of July 1, 1956, all authorizations for military public works projects to be accomplished by the Secretary of a military department in connection with the establishment or development of military, naval, or Air Force installations and facilities, and all authorizations for appropriations therefor, that are contained in Acts
68 Stat. 4 5 4. 7 USC 1691 note. Payment toCCC.
Reports to Coir>gressional C o m mittees.
Floor area.
62 Stat. 379. 10 USC 1337b and note. 62 Stat. 462. 34 USC 9 1 It)91 Id. Housing units. Acquisition,
55 Stat. 12 seq.;
Stat, 55; 65 295. u s e 1736 et 1750 et seq.
Unit cost.
Repeal of prior authorizations.
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