COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PURSUANT TO

H.R. 3516

TO FURTHER AMEND THE FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ACT
OF 1950, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE FOR SHELTER IN FED-
ERAL STRUCTURES, TO AUTHORIZE PAYMENT TOWARD
THE CONSTRUCTION OR MODIFICATION OF APPROVED
PUBLIC SHELTER SPACE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

CARL VINSON, Georgia, Chairman

PART I.-HEARINGS BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 3 ON H.R. 3516,
TO FURTHER AMEND THE FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ACT OF
1950, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE FOR SHELTER IN FEDERAL
STRUCTURES, TO AUTHORIZE PAYMENT TOWARD THE CON-
STRUCTION OR MODIFICATION OF APPROVED PUBLIC SHELTER
SPACE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES,

SUBCOMMITTEE No. 3,

Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 28, 1963. Subcommittee No. 3 met at 10 a.m., in room 313-A, Cannon House Office Building, to begin consideration of H.R. 3516, Hon. F. Edward Hébert (chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. A copy of the bill follows:

[H.R. 3516, 88th Cong., 1st sess.].

A BILL To further amend the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended, to provide for shelter in Federal structures, to authorize payment toward the construction or modification of approved public shelter space, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2251 et seq.), is further amended by adding to title II of the Act the following new sections 206 and 207:

"SHELTER IN FEDERAL STRUCTURES

"SEC. 206. (a) Public shelter shall be incorporated in all structures existing or to be constructed in the future and owned or occupied by any department or agency of the United States whether civilian or military, unless exempted from such shelter requirement in accordance with the procedures and criteria prescribed pursuant to subsection (b).

"(b) The President may prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of subsection (a). Such rules and regulations shall make provision for the establishment of procedures and criteria for incorporating public shelter in structures owned or occupied by any department or agency of the United States and may make provision for the exemption from this requirement where design and construction characteristics of the structure, the cost of providing public shelter, or such other factors as may be determined, make unnecessary, uneconomical, or impracticable the incorporation of public shelter in such structures.

"(c) The Administrator is authorized to construct regional and other emergency operating offices and centers as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, without regard to the restriction on acquisition of fee title to land contained in subsection 201 (h) of this Act (50 U.S.C. App. 2281(h), and without regard to the provisions of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended. (40 U.S.C. 601-615).

"SHELTER FINANCING

"SEC. 207. (a) The Administrator is authorized to make payments to nonprofit institutions or instrumentalities constructing or modifying public shelter space which meets shelter criteria established under the provisions of this Act. Payments shall be made in accordance with regulations prescribed under the

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