Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986

Summary

Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - 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. 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. 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. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in the 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. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. 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 12 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 1985 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 costs 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 FY 1987 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 housing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land acquisition a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country, upon certain determinations. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles, and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the buyer of such land to construct up to 400 units of family housing and lease such units to the Army, or rent such units to military personnel. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary having full authority to determine which offer is in the best interest of the United States. Requires the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer, and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project for which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West Corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 4 December 1985

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 12 November 1985

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 16 October 1985

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 5 June 1985

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 1 May 1985

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