Military Construction Authorization Act, 1981

Summary

(Reported to House from the Committee on Armed Services with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1009) Military Construction Authorization Act, 1981 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish or develop military installations and facilities at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each of these locations. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake emergency construction upon a determination by the Secretary of Defense that deferral of such construction until the next Military Construction Authorization Act would be inconsistent with the national security. Authorizes appropriations for such emergency construction. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1979, to increase the authorization of appropriations for Army acquisition and construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to establish or develop military installations and facilities at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake emergency construction to meet national security needs as provided under title I of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the construction of the Air Passenger Terminal Keflavik, Iceland, in accordance with this title and any agreement made with the Government of Iceland. Sets forth prerequisites for such agreement before such contract may be commenced. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to establish or develop military installations and facilities at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake emergency construction to meet national security needs as provided under title I of this Act. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1979, to increase the authorization of appropriations for Air Force acquisition and construction projects. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop military installations at specified locations and authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such location. Authorizes the Secretary to establish or develop additional facilities which are determined to be vital to the security of the United States. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations for the United States' share of NATO programs for the acquisition or construction of military facilities. Title V: Military Family Housing - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire or construct military housing units at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary to make renovations at existing public quarters of the military departments and defense agencies at costs not to exceed specified amounts. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1968, to provide that the cost limitation for the improvement of single family housing units be adjusted by the area construction cost index developed by the Department of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to accomplish repairs and improvements to existing family housing units at various locations for specified amounts. Grants the Secretary the authority to carry out advance planning and construction design and to obtain architectural and engineering services for family housing construction at costs not to exceed specified amounts. Increases the maximum average rental expenditure for military housing within the United States or abroad. Makes occupants of military housing units liable for damages they may cause to such units and directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to such effect. Exempts the housing for personnel of the Department of Defense from space limitations authorized by existing law for family quarters obtained by the Department of State. Authorizes the Secretary to complete construction of 2,600 family housing units in Oahu, Hawaii, at costs not to exceed a specified amount. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1979, to increase authorizations for acquisition and construction of certain military family housing projects. Authorizes specified appropriations for support of military housing as authorized by law including operating expenses, leasing, maintenance, and credit expenses. Revises the family housing management account to include the proceeds from the rental of family housing, payments made for damages to such housing, and reimbursements from other agencies for expenditures from such account. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretaries of the various military departments to develop installations under this Act without regard to provisions of law which prohibit the advancement of public moneys and which require the submission of detailed cost estimates to Congress. Establishes expenditure ceilings for each title of this Act. Authorizes limited increases in the amounts authorized pursuant to this Act if the Secretary of the military department or the Director of the defense agency concerned determines that such an increase is required for the sole purpose of meeting unusual and unanticipated variations in cost. Directs the Secretary of Defense to encourage the use of solar energy for projects authorized by this Act and authorizes the Secretary to increase the cost limitations or floor area limitations for a project in order to equip it with solar energy heating or cooling equipment. Establishes measures and responsibility for supervising the construction work authorized under this Act. Repeals prior Military Construction Authorization Acts. Specifies exceptions to such repealer. Sets forth unit cost limitations based on square footage for projects authorized pursuant to this Act. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop additional facilities for the Guard and Reserve Forces of various military departments. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for each such entity. Title VIII: General Provisions - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1975, to authorize the Secretary to provide assistance to the communities located near the East Coast TRIDENT Base or the MX Weapon System for increased costs of municipal services and facilities of such communities, to the extent such funds are specifically appropriated to the Department of Defense in Military Construction Authorization Acts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide transportation for military personnel assigned to the Naval Submarine Support Base, Kings Bay, Georgia, until adequate onbase family housing is completed or until January 1, 1982. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1977, to modify the prior authority for land conveyance in South Charleston, West Virginia, by increasing the amount of acreage conveyed. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to modify a prior land acquisition in San Diego, California, to provide a possibility of reverter of such land to the City of San Diego if the United States ceases to use the land for hospital or medical purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to the city in exchange for such land all or part of the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire all interest of the San Diego Unified School District in and to certain other parcels of land in the County of San Diego in exchange for lands of equivalent value. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire all interest in certain lands contiguous to McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento County, California, in exchange for lands of equivalent value. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the City of Wabasha, Minnesota, certain lands comprising the United States Army Reserve Center in exchange for certain lands of equivalent value. Provides that such conveyance shall not be made until the existing Center is vacated and a new Center is constructed. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey, without monetary consideration, to the Government of Guam all interest in certain lands within the Apra Harbor Naval Complex, Guam, Marianas Islands. Subjects such conveyance to such times, terms, and conditions as the Secretary considers to be in the interest of national defense.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 11 October 1980

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 25 September 1980

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 16 September 1980

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 10 September 1980

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 7 June 1980

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 16 May 1980

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