Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985

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Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 - 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 construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Sets forth specifications for the construction of family housing units at Fort Hood, Texas, and for the use of funds at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and at Fort Hamilton, New York. Directs the Secretary of the Army to contract for design or replacement facilities for the Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. 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 at specified installations. Authorizes expenditures to improve existing military family housing units. Sets forth specifications and funding arrangements for housing units at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Authorizes the Secretary to replace specified substandard housing units in the Sterling Homes Project, Oceanside, California. Authorizes the Secretary to convey as payment to the contractor title to the land and improvements thereon constituting Sterling Homes Project. Designates the naval hospital under construction in San Diego, California, as the Bob Wilson Naval Hospital. 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. 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. 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 at specified installations. Permits expenditures to improve existing units. Amends the Military Construction Authorizations Act, 1984, to increase the authorizations level for defense agency construction in FY 1984. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and 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 and amounts available to the Department from previous appropriations. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Provides for a supplemental authorization for FY 1984 for a military construction project at the Naval Station, Keflavik, Iceland. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the ceiling on facility acquisitions which the Secretary of Defense may make using funds available for operations and maintenance. Expands the authority of the Secretary to contribute funds to a State for arms storage rooms to encompass any critical portion of state facilities related to a Federal military mission. Title VIII: General Provisions - Expands the liability of a member of the armed forces for damage to housing, equipment, and furnishing to include damage to an unaccompanied personnel housing unit as well as to a family unit. Permits the Secretary to establish limitations of liability or to compromise or waive claims. Treats land acquisition projects involving condemned lands the same as all other land acquisition projects conducted by a military department. Increases from five to 12 the percent of available real property funds a Secretary of a military department may use to acquire options. Authorizes a Secretary of a military department to use operation and maintenance or construction funds to restore land to a condition required by another military department or Federal agency which has permitted such land to be used by the department. Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from storing non-Department owned toxic or hazardous materials in a Department installation. Excludes from such prohibition the storage of materials in the National Defense Stockpile, the temporary storage of explosives to protect the public or assist law enforcement or civil authorities, the temporary storage of nuclear or classfied materials, and other specified emergency storage. Permits the Secretary to charge for such storage. Permits the Secretary of each military department to enter into one contract for no more than 600 family housing units at one location to accommodate a major restationing action. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to exchange specified lands with the Colorado Board of Land Commissioners to acquire title to or interests in lands in the vicinity of Consolidate Space Operations Center, Falcon Air Force Station, Colorado. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specified lands at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, to the Naval Academy Athletic Association for fair market value. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specified lands or an easement in perpetuity to such lands on the Marine Corps Air Station (helicopter), Tustin, California, to the Irving Company or the cities of Tustin and Irvine for the development of a public thoroughfare. Requires the Irvine Company to convey certain rights to lands known as the Browning Corridor and the cities and the Irvine Company to reimburse the United States for costs of replacing the facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey lands on the March Air Force Base, California, to the Village West Foundation, San Bernardino, California, in exchange for lands of the same market value, the fair market value, or some combination of cash and land comprising the fair market value. Retains a right of reversion to the United States if such land is not used for permanent facilities for the Foundation within ten years, or in portions of the land which cease to be used for Foundation purposes during a 40 year period. Prohibits the Foundation from disposing of such land for 50 years. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey without consideration specified lands located in Lompoc, California, to the city of Lompoc for a permanent site for a space science museum or for related education and recreation purposes.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 29 August 1984

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 7 August 1984

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 26 June 1984

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 22 June 1984

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 15 May 1984

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 7 May 1984

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