Naval Reserve aviation base, Anacostia, D. C.: Enlisted men's barracks. Naval Reserve aviation base, Atlanta, Ga.: Enlisted men's barracks. Roads, walks, and services Naval Reserve aviation base, Dallas, Tex.: Services and roads. Naval Reserve aviation base, New York (Floyd Bennett), N. Y.: *Enlisted men's barracks Naval Reserve aviation base, Glenview, Ill.: Enlisted men's barracks. 217, 200 2, 601, 200 2, 601, 200 250,000 800,000 300,000 400,000 480,000 100,000 560,000 700,000 200, 000 3, 790,000 3,790,000 120,000 120,000 Naval Reserve aviation base, Minneapolis, Minn. Barracks building. Naval Reserve aviation base, Oakland, Calif.: Enlisted men's barracks Naval radio station, Astoria, Oreg: Quarters and accessories for officer in charge. Naval radio station, Balboa, C. Z.: Utility building and accessories. Naval radio station, Charlotte Amalie, V. I.: Radio facilities, including buildings and accessories 140,000 Naval radio station, Cheltenham, Md.: *Expansion of radio facilities, including buildings and accessories and services. Radio station, marine detachment, Chinwangtao, China: Replacement of operating building. Naval radio station, Chollas Heights (San Diego), Calif.: *Utility building and accessories. Naval radio station, National Airport, David, Panama: *Quarters for officer in charge and operators. Naval radio station, Gatun, C. Z.: Additional radio facilities, including buildings and accessories 200,000 Naval radio station, Key West, Fla.: Expansion of radio facilities, including buildings. Naval radio station, Guantanamo, Cuba: *Additional radio facilities, including buildings and accessories. 200,000 Naval radio station, Libugon, Guam: Quarters for operators. Naval radio station, Mare Island, Calif.: *Expansion of radio facilities, including buildings and accessories. Naval radio station, New Orleans, La.: Radio facilities and accessories. Naval radio station, Point Arguello, Calif.: Relocate station, including buildings and acquisition of land. Naval radio station, Point Loma (San Diego), Calif.: *Quarters for operators. Naval radio station, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va.: Additional facilities, including buildings and accessories. Naval radio station, Summit, C. Z.: Expansion of radio facilities, including buildings and accessories... Naval fuel depot, Pearl Harbor, T. H.: *Extension of underground fuel storage. 16, 000, 000 521,000 16, 000, 000 Marine barracks, Charleston, S. C.: *Guard and utility building.. 6,850,000 600, 000 Marine barracks, New River, N. C.: Landing field for training parachute troops. 90,000 6, 850, 000 600, 000 90,000 Thirteenth Naval District (rifle range): Barracks and officers' quarters. Fourteenth Naval District: *Improvement of harbors and channels, development of carrier moorings... Fifteenth Naval District: Material for emergency housing for marine guards at Photographic facilities, including buildings and accessories at various locations. Reserve storage for gasoline at various locations. *Hospital Corps training facilities at various locations. Expansion of hospital facilities at various locations. PERCENTAGE OF COST OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF SHORE STATION ESTABLISHMENTS Mr. DITTER. Now, can you give me an estimate of the yearly maintenance cost of each station, shore station establishment? Admiral MOREELL. Yes. Mr. DITTER. In other words can you set up a table from your estimate of maintenance costs including the civilian personnel, the enlisted personnel, the officer personnel and also other costs going into maintenance? Admiral MOREELL. You mean incident to these new projects? Admiral MOREELL. Very well. That is a large order. Mr. WOODRUM. And you will not have opportunity to build the stuff if you have to get up that list would you? Admiral MOREELL. We will have to put on some extra steam. Admiral MOREELL. About 6 weeks. Mr. DITTER. You mean to give us an estimate of the maintenance cost? Admiral MOREELL. There are about 1,200 items in this program. Mr. DITTER. It ought not to take that long. Mr. WOODRUM. You would not want to make him do that now, would you? Mr. DITTER. Well, I will decide whether I will or not. But if we are going to get the cost of installation we ought to have the cost of maintenance. Mr. WOODRUM. We know we are going to have to maintain it anyway. Mr. DITTER. What percentage of the cost of installation do you think it would involve as maintenance? Admiral MOREELL. I think it will run about 14 percent just for maintenance, not operation. Mr. DITTER. How much for operation; usually we consider about 5 percent for maintenance and operation, do we not? Admiral MOREELL. I do not know what the figure is. Mr. DITTER. It will not take much time to get that figure up, will it not? Admiral MOREELL. No. Mr. DITTER. Well, just forget the other request then, and supply that. Mr. DITTER. Now, Admiral, can you tell us how long it will take to complete the projects? Admiral MOREELL. We believe that we can complete all of the construction in this program in a year. Some of the projects will be completed very much less than a year. That is based on the present rate of construction which is about $55,000,000 a month. Mr. DITTER. All of this can be completed in a year? Admiral MOREELL. Yes; we think so. There may be some of it that will go over a year, but we will balance that by a great deal that will come under a year. Mr. DITTER. Which would be the type of project that would take longer than a year? Admiral MOREELL. Breakwater projects, for example, would take about 15 to 18 months. Mr. DITTER. Then we might well decrease some of these appropriations by reason of the fact that you do not need the funds immediately. Admiral MOREELL. Well, we need the contract authorization, and the amount that would slop over would be so small, such a small percentage of the total that I do not believe there would be any great saving by changing these appropriations to contract authorizations. Mr. DITTER. Do you think you can get the necessary skilled men and the necessary materials to complete this program within a year? Admiral MOREELL. I think we can. Mr. SHEPPARD. What has been the slowing up relative to being unable to get materials fabricated with steel? Admiral MOREELL. Steel? Mr. SHEPPARD. Material fabricated with steel. Admiral MOREELL. Well, we started out on a program, I would say, about a year and a half ago when we were able to obtain steel in from 4 to 5 weeks from the day it was ordered. At the present time it takes us from 12 to 15 weeks to get fabricated steel. Mr. SHEPPARD. Is it reasonable to assume that stretching-out period, the slowing-up period, which you have just indicated was caused by the momentum of the general production and that there will be the same parity of retardation in the future as there has been in the time you have just indicated? Admiral MOREELL. I think conditions will improve, Mr. Sheppard, because as we go along the priority people are becoming more and more conscious of the fact that we have got to take steel and other commodities away from civilian uses and devote them to military purposes. The consciousness of the necessity of that has not been real in the past. Mr. DOTTER. The steel people have been doing a splendid job have they not? |