Authorization bill FY97, Military Construction

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title XXI(sic): Army

Title XXII: Navy

Title XXIII: Air Force

Title XXIV: Defense Agencies

Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security

Investment Program

Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities

Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations

Title XXVIII: General Provisions

Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military

Family Housing Changes

Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment

Subtitle C: Land Conveyances

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 - Title XXI(sic): 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. Authorizes such Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1996 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title.

(Sec. 2105) Directs the Secretary of the Army to submit to the congressional defense committees a comprehensive plan for basic repairs and stabilization measures throughout the historic district at the Forest Glen Annex of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maryland.

Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title.

(Sec. 2204) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads.

Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army.

Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural planning and design activities and to improve existing military family housing units, in specified amounts.

(Sec. 2404) Earmarks funds for the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund and the Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund, for appropriate uses.

(Sec. 2405) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects.

(Sec. 2406) Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal years after 1996 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title.

Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1996 for such contributions.

(Sec. 2503) Redesignates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure Program as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program.

Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1996 for the Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities.

(Sec. 2602) Earmarks specified prior-year military construction funds for the construction and improvement of certain reserve centers in the State of Washington. Amends the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995 to require certain environmental compliance before commencing construction of a replacement naval reserve center in such State.

Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 1999, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2000, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects.

(Sec. 2705) Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act for certain military construction projects in Kentucky until the Secretary certifies that the project is included in the current future-years defense program.

Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Increases threshold amounts for unspecified minor military construction projects.

(Sec. 2802) Authorizes as day-to-day maintenance and repair of military family housing facilities the building of drives into such facilities.

(Sec. 2803) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to grant easements for rights-of-way for electric poles and lines and for communications lines and facilities.

Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to authorize the Secretary to transfer real property or facilities at military installations closed or realigned under a base closure law to a military department or other entity within DOD or the Coast Guard.

(Sec. 2812) Amends the above Act and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (together, the base closure laws) to authorize the Secretary to enter into agreements for services at military installations after their closure or realignment.

Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and the Army to undertake a specified land exchange within the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

(Sec. 2822) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the United States Institute for Peace administrative jurisdiction over the Potomac Annex in Washington, D.C.

(Sec. 2823) Authorizes the Secretary of the: (1) Army to convey to Montpelier, Vermont, the Army Reserve Center in Montpelier; (2) Navy to convey to Delaware the former Naval Reserve Facility in Lewes, Delaware; (3) Air Force to convey to the Belle Fourche School District, South Dakota, the Air Force radar bomb scoring site in Belle Fourche; (4) Air Force to convey to an appropriate entity the primate research complex at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; (5) Air Force to carry out a demonstration project for the installation and operation by private entities of an electric power distribution system at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Youngstown, Ohio; and (6) Army to transfer to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs a portion of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for use as a national cemetery.

(Sec. 2829) Directs the Secretary to reduce the total renovation costs of the Pentagon Reservation to no more than $1.118 million.

(Sec. 2830) Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to convey to the Job Development Authority of Rolla, North Dakota, the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant in Rolla.

(Sec. 2831) Directs the Secretary of the Army to complete a land conveyance involving Fort Sheridan, Illinois, as authorized under the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1996.

(Sec. 2832) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, the Crafts Brothers Reserve Training Center in Manchester.

(Sec. 2833) Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Agriculture to enter into an agreement providing for the transfer to the Secretary of the Army of certain land within the Vernon Ranger District of the Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana, for use as a military training site.

(Sec. 2834) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to instruct the Administrator of General Services to convey to the Columbus Municipal Airport Authority, Columbus, Ohio, certain real property at Air Force Plant No. 85 in Columbus.

(Sec. 2835) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Economic Development Alliance of Jefferson County, Arkansas, a portion of the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas.

(Sec. 2836) Modifies the boundaries of the White Sands National Monument and the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

(Sec. 2837) Modifies the boundaries of the Bandelier National Monument.