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convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment in the total amount of $200,000,000. SEC. 303. The Secretary of each military department may proceed ^^^tl"^ eT^"'""^' to establish or develop installations and facilities under this Act with- ""^^ ^' ^ • out regard to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 629), and sections 4774(d) and 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code. The authority to place permanent or temporary ^OA Stat. 269, 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 authority to make surveys and to acquire land, and interests in land (including temporary use), by gift, purchase, exchange of Government-owned land, or otherwise. SEC. 304. Whenever— contracts. (1) the President determines that compliance with section 2313(b) of title 10, United States Code, for contracts made under ^OA Stat. 132. this Act for the establishment or development of military installations and facilities in foreign countries would interfere with the carrying out of this Act; and (2) the Secretary of Defense and the Comptroller General have agreed upon alternative methods of adequately auditing those contracts; the President may exempt those contracts from the requirements of that section. SEC. 305. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may n^^gt^o^'^*'""' be necessary for the purposes of this title, but the appropriations for public works authorized by sections 301 and 302 shall not exceed— (1) for section 301: Department of the Army, $509,700,000; Department of the Navy, $304,300,000; Department of the Air Force, $274,100,000, or a total of $1,088,100,000. (2) for section 302: a total of $200,000,000. TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. (a) Funds authorized for appropriation for the use of the (,^1^""'^^; vletna" Armed Forces of the United States under this or any other Act are mVs J forces! Ttc. authorized to be made available for their stated purposes in connection with support of Vietnamese and other free world forces in Vietnam, and related costs, during the fiscal years 1966 and 1967, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of l^efense may determine. (b) Within 30 days after the end of each quarter, the Secretary g r eReport ltocomconssiona of Defense shall render to the Committees on Armed Services and m i t t e e s. Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report with respect to the estimated value by country of support furnished from appropriations authorized to be made under this subsection. (c) The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Committees on construction, r Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a descrip- projects d e tsicmiapt-e s. tion and e s tion of all construction projects, including cost estimates and periodic reports, made available to the Secretary of Defense simultaneously with the receipt of such information from the persons responsible for the construction of such projects in support of Vietnamese and other free world forces in Vietnam. Whenever such construction projects, ^^^"""^^"^"^i involving $1,000,000 or more, are performed by private contractors, mut^es"^ the Secretary of Defense or his representative in Vietnam shall report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of
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