Public Law 81–764

That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to establish or develop installations and facilities by the construction, installation, or equipment of temporary or permanent public works, including buildings, facilities, appurtenances, and utilities, at stations of the Alaska Communication System at the following locations:

Adak, Aleutian Islands: Area utilities for use jointly with the Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Navy, $175,000.

Anchorage, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, garage, and utilities, $800,900.

Anchorage-Fairbanks, Alaska: Line maintenance buildings and utilities between Anchorage and Fairbanks, $175,000.

Anchorage-Fairbanks, Alaska: Operational buildings, garage, warehouse, and utilities at three locations between Anchorage and Fairbanks, $545,550.

Bethel, Alaska: Operational buildings and utilities, $20,000.

Big Delta, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, garages, and utilities, $354,579.

Cathedral Bluffs, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, garages, and utilities, $350,684.

Cape Fanshaw, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities. $175,000.

Cold Bay, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, garages, and utilities, $83,500.

Cordova, Alaska: Operational buildings and utilities, $28,400.

Eielson Field, Alaska : Family quarters, operational buildings, garages, and utilities, $307,255.

Fairbanks, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, garages, warehouses, and utilities, $1,407,220.

Haines, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $60,500.

Juneau, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, garages, and utilities, $233,340.

Kotzebue, Alaska: Operational building and utilities, $30,000.

Lena Point, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, garage, and utilities, $149,900.

Mile 33, Alaska: Operational building and utilities, $46,000.

Mitchell Point, Alaska : Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $175,000.

Naknek, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $480,600.

Narrow Point, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $175,000.

Nome, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $289,000.

Northway, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, garages, and utilities, $377,204.

Petersburg, Alaska: Operational buildings and utilities, $74,400.

Point Agassiz, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $175,000.

Portage, Alaska: Operational building and utilities, $100,000.

Skagway, Alaska: Family quarters, warehouse, garages, and utilities, $91,900.

Thane, Alaska: Family quarters, operational buildings, and ultilities, $175,000.

Ketchikan, Alaska: Rehabilitation of family quarters, operational buildings, and utilities, $157,800.

Kodiak, Alaska: Operational buildings and utilities, $12,580.

Seattle, Washington: Family quarters, operational buildings, warehouse, submarine cable tanks, garages, and utilities, $436,500.

Sec. 2.

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any

Appropriation authorized.

money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary toward meeting the

Limitation.

purposes of this Act; and with respect to projects within and without continental United States, the approximate partial cost for each project enumerated and authorized in section 1 of this Act may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, be varied upward 10 per centum, but the total cost of the work on the projects authorized by this Act

Availability of appropriation.

shall not exceed $7,663,212. Any such appropriation shall be available under the direction of the Secretary of the Army for expenses incident to construction, including administration, overhead, planning, and

Prosecution of work.

surveys, and shall be available until expended: Provided, That any work undertaken under this authorization may be prosecuted by direct appropriations, or by both direct appropriations and continuing contracts subject to the availability of subsequent appropriations:

Family quarters.

Provided further, That construction of family quarters under this authorization shall be subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the last six provisos of section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 (Public

5 U.S.C., Supp. II, § 626p; 10 U.S.C., Supp. II, § 1337b.

Acquisition of lands, etc.

Law 626; 62 Stat. 379–380).

Sec. 3.

To accomplish the above-authorized construction the Secretary of the Army is authorized to acquire lands and rights pertaining thereto, or other interest therein, including the temporary use thereof, by donation, purchase, exchange of Government-owned lands, or otherwise,

31 U.S.C. § 529.

without regard to section 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended.