An act to authorize certain construction at military installations for fiscal year 1980, and for other purposes.

Summary

Military Construction Authorization Act, 1980 - Title I: - 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 establish or develop other installations by proceeding with construction made necessary by unforeseen security considerations, new weapons development, new and unforeseen research and development requirements, improved production schedules or revisions in the tasks or functions assigned to a military installation or for environmental considerations if the Secretary of Defense determines that deferral of such construction for inclusion in the next Military Construction Authorization Act would be inconsistent with the national security. Authorizes appropriations for such emergency construction. Title II: - 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 establish or develop other installations where necessary under the same conditions as those relating to the Secretary of the Army under Title I of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to expend excess foreign exchange funds of $580,000 for the construction of a multipurpose marine biological laboratory at the Al Ghardaqa Marine Laboratory, Hurgada, Arab Republic of Egypt. Title III: - 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 establish or develop additional facilities where necessitated by those factors enumerated in Title I of this Act pertaining to the Secretary of the Army. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Acts of 1978, to decrease the authorization of appropriations for Air Force acquisition and construction projects at various locations in Europe. 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. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act of 1978 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the High Energy Laser Facility at White Sands, New Mexico. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1979, to increase the authorization of appropriations for the United States' share of NATO programs for the acquisition or construction of military facilities. Title V: Military Family Housing and Homeowners Assistance Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire or construct 332 family housing units at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Increases the maximum average rental expenditure for military housing within the United States or abroad. Decreases the total number of military family housing units which may be leased in foreign countries at any one time. Authorizes specified appropriations for military housing as authorized by law including homeowners assistance pursuant to the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. 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 costs. 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. Increases the maximum Federal contribution for Guard and Reserve Forces facilities which may be made without prior notification to Congress. Title VIII: General Provisions - Stipulates that a minor construction project (less than $300,000) which has been identified in the annual military construction program submitted to Congress shall not need the approval of the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned. Authorizes the Secretaries of each military department to utilize geothermal energy resources or private property for the benefit of the Department of Defense. Amends the Secretary of Defense to pay to the owners of land on Roi-Namur Island, Marshall Islands District of the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, such amounts as are determined to be in the public interest for the use of such island by the United States Government after 1960. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to King County, Washington, the land comprising the 143rd Combat Squadron, Washington Air National Guard located at Boeing Field, Seattle, in exchange for a replacement facility for such Guard facility. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make a capital contribution of $500,000 from funds authorized for minor construction projects under this Act to the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to convey, without compensation the excess tract of land on the remaining portion of the former Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to the United States Olympic Committee. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to utilize mass transit vehicles on military installations if such use would be efficient, practical, and in the best interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary of Defense to pay the Department's share for the upgrading waste treatment facilities utilized by military installations where such upgrading is for the purpose of complying with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Stipulates that such share shall be the amount agreed upon by the Secretary and the appropriate authority concerned. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated by this or any other Act for the realignment of the Strategic Air Command's Loring Air Force Base. Stipulates that the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act shall not apply to any wages for the construction of any project authorized by this or any other military construction authorization Act if the contract for such construction was entered on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 27 November 1979

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• Conference report filed in Senate

  summary · EN · 8 November 1979

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 24 October 1979

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 30 July 1979

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 12 June 1979

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