Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984

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Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design in connection with military family housing construction and improvements. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified projects using unobligated funds from the previous year's authorization. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units and acquire manufactured home facilities at specified installations. Authorizes expenditures to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Increases the number of irrigable acres which may be leased for agricultural and grazing purposes at the Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. Permits the Secretary to acquire land in San Diego, California, for future construction of military family housing. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1982 to modify the authority for procuring a steam supply for the Charleston, South Carolina, Naval Station from the Macalloy Corporation. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units and acquire manufactured home facilities at specified installations. Authorizes improvements to existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units as specified. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design in connection with military family housing construction. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units and acquire manufactured home facilities at specified installations. Permits expenditures to improve existing units. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for prefinancing of projects to be paid for by such program until a precise schedule has been established for recoupment of existing U.S. prepayments on such projects and procedures have been established for recoupment of any future prefinancing payments. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report regularly to the appropriate committees of of Congress on progress in establishing such a schedule. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1983 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total cost of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of 1985 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family hosuing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1983 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Increases from $200,000 to $400,000 the ceiling on facility acquisitions which the Secretary of Defense may make without notifying the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. Title VIII: General Provisions - Decreases from 2,500 to 2,000 the number of military, civilian, and contractor personnel assigned to an area as part of the establishment or expansion of a military installation that would make the area eligible for community planning assistance. Permits the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into contracts for the lease ofhousing facilities on or near military installations in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Guam. Sets forth the terms, conditions, and limitations on such leasing. Requires such Secretary to give the appropriate committees of Congress 21 days notice of an agreement to lease. Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into agreements to occupy privately or State or locally developed rental housing located near military installations that have a shortage of family housing. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such agreements. Increases the number of high cost leases which may be entered into. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to exchange specified lands with the County of Orange, California. Requires the County of Orange to pay the difference to the United States if the fair market value of the land it receives exceeds the fair market value of the land it conveys. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specified land in the County of Ventura, California, to the Oxnard Harbor District, California. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey specified land to the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, as a permanent site for the Alabama Space Science Exhibit. Reserves a reversionary interest for the United States should the land conveyed be used for other than the specified purpose. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to exchange specified lands in the County of Franklin, Ohio, within the City of Columbus, Ohio. Requires the City of Columbus to pay the difference to the United States if the fair market value of the land it receives exceeds the fair market value of the land it conveys. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to exchange specified lands with the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority in Orlando, Florida.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 12 October 1983

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 19 September 1983

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 26 July 1983

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 21 June 1983

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 16 May 1983

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 May 1983

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