MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1964 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to adjournment, in room 1114, New Senate Office Building, Hon. Stuart Symington (acting chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Stennis, Hayden, Saltonstall, and Symington. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. W. R. SHULER, DIRECTOR OF INSTALLATIONS, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; ACCOMPANIED BY MAJ. GEN. E. L. ROWNY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR TACTICAL MOBILITY, OFFICE OF ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FORCE DEVELOPMENT; H. T. LaCROSSE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ARMY BUDGET, OFFICE, COMPTROLLER OF THE ARMY; BRIG. GEN. F. J. CLARKE, DIRECTOR OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS; BRIG. GEN. J. J. TOLSON, DIRECTOR OF ARMY AVIATION, OFFICE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FORCE DEVELOPMENT; COL. W. R. JOHNSON, CHIEF, CONSTRUCTION DIVISION, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; COL. BARTON O. BAKER, OFFICE, CHIEF OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; COL. W. R. BOND, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL WARFARE, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS; COL. R. M. RAWLS, OFFICE, DIRECTOR OF ARMY AVIATION, OFFICE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FORCE DEVELOPMENT; COL. J. R. RORABAUGH, CHIEF, FAMILY HOUSING DIVISION, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS; LT. COL. A. S. BARTHOLOMEW, S-4, CAMERON STATION, VA.; LT. COL. D. E. EPPERSON, HEADQUARTERS, ARMY SECURITY AGENCY; LT. COL. J. R. EVANS, CHIEF, AIR DEFENSE BRANCH, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; LT. COL. J. L. SHERMAN, MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND, OFFICE, THE SURGEON GENERAL; H. BULLOCK, COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS DIRECTORATE, OFFICE, CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER; J. L. 115 MCDANIEL, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALA.; R. B. FOSTER, CHIEF, INSTALLATIONS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; B. R. JACOBELLIS, DEFENSE COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY; H. D. VAN KUREN, INSTALLATIONS AND SERVICES DIRECTORATE, ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND; AND H. B. ZACKRISON, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS ARMY SECURITY AGENCY-FORT HUACHUCA, ARIZ. Senator SYMINGTON. Senator Stennis will be late and he asked me to start. So if you are ready we will proceed. Major General SHULER. Mr. Chairman, we are at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. We are asking for two items, the first one on page 245 and this item is an Army Security Agency item at Fort Huachuca. Our request is for construction of an electric equipment facility to be used in support of service testing and it is special equipment which the Army Security Agency developed. The space now provided to meet this requirement, the greatest part of it is in a barracks that is over 80 years old and the building is inadequate for this mission. It is limited in space and we would run a security risk and also damage to our costly electronic equipment in the space we are in. Senator SYMINGTON. Very well, proceed. Major General SHULER. The next item is on page 246 and that is Fort Huachuca, modification of the water supply system at this station. The original distribution system, sir, was installed in 1905. The requirement for this project is as a result of the greatly increased water demand and the deteriorated conditions of a great part of the pipelines in the distribution system. This would bring this system up to the standard that is required, sir. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE WATER SUPPLY The next station is White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The first item is on page 248. This request is for a water supply— water supply addition at a cost of $988,000. It is required as an addition to the post water supply system to serve the post area, launching, assembling, static test, and propellant storage areas. The requirement is derived from demands of the range mission of the White Sands missile ranges, which is one of the national missile ranges and supports all range users including Department of Defense agencies, NASA, Atomic Energy Commission, and other Government agencies. It is to provide the ranges with capability to maintain operational effectiveness in face of a schedule of potential missile and space projects which would require this basic utility I am speaking of in operational tests. We are not in good shape there on our water supply and this would bring us up to the proper standards. ALTERATION, NIKE-ZEUS TECHNICAL FACILITIES Senator SYMINGTON. I see, alterations and adjustments to technical facilities, NIKE-ZEUS. Mayor General SHULER. On page 249, this is a classified item and, as I understand it, sir, we will take it up, if it be your pleasure, in executive session. Senator SYMINGTON. I see. I thought we were going to NIKE-X. Major General SHULER. This is correct, sir, and we will tell you about that when we get to executive session. Senator SYMINGTON. That clears it up, NIKE-X instead of ZEUS, right? Major General SHULER. Yes, sir. Senator SYMINGTON. And it will be taken care of in executive session. Major General SHULER. Yes, sir. Senator SYMINGTON. Proceed. YUMA, ARIZ., TEST STATION Major General SHULER. On page 250 we have Yuma Test Station in Arizona and the line item is on page 251. We are requesting a 300-seat chapel center at this station. The seating capacity of the existing chapel is less then half that required to conduct worship services on an average Sunday. The air-conditioning system is not of sufficient capacity to accommodate large groups, especially during the hot summer months when we have a maximum temperature as high as 118° F. This is one of the repetitive items that we discussed earlier in the hearing, sir. Senator SYMINGTON. All right, proceed. EAST COAST RADIO TRANSMITTER, VIRGINIA Major General SHULER. The next station is on page 253, the East Coast Radio Transmitter Station, Virginia, and the item is on page 254 and this project is for $88,000 to correct a very unfavorable sewage problem at this station. There are two small septic tanks which are the only sewage facilities we have here and no treatment is provided and the raw effluent flows freely into Occoquan Bay, an adjunct of the Potomac River. This would clear up this unsanitary condition. U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY The next station is U.S. Military Academy. The first item is modernization of certain academic facilities. Our request, if granted, will modernize one of the major instructional facilities, Bartlett Hall, for an estimated cost of $2 million. This building is used for 678,700 cadet-hours of instruction per year. The classrooms, lecture halls, and laboratories have remained substantially unchanged for the past 48 years and the facility is inadequate for the conduct of instruction in the fast-changing fields of physics, chemistry, electricity, and mechanics. This really, sir, is a refurbishment of the interior of this building to bring it up to modern standards. Senator SYMINGTON. Very well, you may proceed. WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, WEST POINT Major General SHULER. The House Appropriations Committee denied us this next item and we do not desire to make a reclama on it. The reason is because of the possibility, and we hope absolute possibility, of the expansion of the Academy strength, sir. We must now take into account other factors and replan this project. We do not intend to make a reclama. The amount was $291,000. The item is to improve the water distribution system at West Point. Senator SYMINGTON. So you are satisfied with it, then, satisfied not to reclama? Major General SHULER. Yes, we will come in in a future year for another project. ARMY SECURITY AGENCY ITEMS We come to the Army Security Agency items now under the bill, sir. That is a total of $7,393,000. Two ROCK RANCH STATION The first station is Two Rock Ranch Station, in California. There are two line items. The first one is an addition to the operations building. At the beginning of the hearing I covered the repetitive items in the program and this is one of the repetitive-type items. It is included on a list we gave to the committee. It simply is required, sir, to take care of additional missions assigned to this station. They require additional operations building space. The next item at the same station is related to the operations room addition. It provides a suitable power supply for the support of the operational mission of the station. In the mission of the Army Security Agency, reliable power is a "must" for adequate performance of the mission. Because of the continuing mission expansion the two generators that provide the present 250 kilovolt-amperes of emergency power are no longer capable of meeting this requirement. This project will take care of the deficiency. VINT HILL FARMS STATION, VA. The next station is Vint Hill Farms Station, Va. The first item is to provide 35,000 square feet of space for the testing, evaluation, and development of special electronic equipment required by the Army Security Agency in their worldwide operations. Although they make every effort to use off-the-shelf items, their mission is of a peculiar nature, sir, which sometimes requires specially developed electronic and other items and this is the place where they prove these out and test them out before they send them to the oversea locations. Senator SYMINGTON. Is this something you would rather talk about in a classified hearing? Major General SHULER. No, sir, we can talk about it in an open hearing except specifically about the types of equipment. Senator SYMINGTON. That is what I mean. Major General SHULER. We can talk in general about it. Senator SYMINGTON. Well, let us talk about it so we know what it is all about later. Major General SHULER. All right, sir. OPERATIONS BUILDING The next item at this station is an operations building addition which is for the identical reason that I discussed in regard to the previous station, the same type of project, and is one of the repetitive items. DISPENSARY AND DENTAL CLINIC The next item at the same station, Vint Hill Farms, is for a dispensary and dental clinic. An analysis by the Surgeon General indicates 9,500 square feet will be adequate here. The present post dispensary and dental clinic are located in a temporary type structure constructed during World War II and having a floor area of only 4,824 square feet. Although rehabilitation and addition to the present building could be accomplished, the structure which would result would be a 19-year-old temporary type building which could not be efficiently operated and maintained. It has outlived its useful life. The next station is on page 268 at location 03 in the Ryukyu Islands. The first item is on page 269 and is for a barracks, and the old facility will be disposed of as a result of the project. The installation is scheduled to receive additional enlisted men but there will be no facilities for them at this installation unless the requested barracks is provided. This is a case, sir, of increase in mission, increase of personnel, and having no place to put them, and we need the barracks to support the mission. GYMNASIUM, OKINAWA The next item is an item which the House Appropriations Committee denied us. This is the 10,200 square foot gymnasium in this location on Okinawa, and there is no gymnasium available for the troops on this installation. We feel this type of facility is especially important for the health and morale of the troops at this particular installation because they are shift workers on an around-the-clock operation. The nightworkers particularly need such facilities for use during off-duty hours. I have an expert witness here on this, if you desire to ask any particular questions, but my plea, sir, is this is so isolated over there we have to give these men something healthful to do and being shift workers on a 24-hour shift operation, I think this is a very worthwhile project. Senator SYMINGTON. There is no gymnasium on Okinawa? Major General SHULER. None that they can use. Ten miles away is the nearest one, sir. |