INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF FORM This form is to be completed by the sponsoring Department, including coordination by the other Departments, and signed prior to its submission (in duplicate) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) for coordination and approval of the project. (When submitted for coordination and approval, this form is to be accompanied by a memorandum to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) presenting supporting date and justification for the project proposed in accordance with instructions.) Copies of the completed form for each project may be furnished the coordinating Military Departments as desired. The following detailed instructions apply to the correspondingly numbered items on the form. 1. Project designation will consist of a prefix indicating the sponsoring Military Department ("A" for Army, "N" for Navy and "AP" for Air Force), and a serial number, starting with "01" for the first project of each Department. 2a. Describe physical geographical location; if located on a military reservation, give name of reservation. b. Insert Dame of installation. When a proposed project will serve more than one installation, so indicate; in such cases, Item 8 will be considered to apply to all installations served. 3a. Report the lowest personnel strengths anticipated for the installation after completion of the proposed bousing project. b. Show the number of family units required for the strengths shown. c. Show the number of existing family units which are considered acceptable as family housing and which are available only to the personnel indicated in Item 3a above. Include existing temporary types, those under construction or for which funds have been appropriated, and previous projects under P. L. 211 (81st Congress). Use "Total" column only. d.. Include housing contained in Public Works bills which have been approved by the Secretary of Defense, but for which funds have not been appropriated to date. Use "Total" column only. e. Deficiency is considered as Item 3b fess the sum of Sc and 3d. Use "Total" column only. 4. Total number of family units included in project as submitted. 5. To be signed and dated after coordination with other Military Departments. Signing of the completed form by the authorized representative of the sponsoring agency constitutes affirmation of all data above. 6. Indicate, for each Military Department other than the sponsoring agency, either "no interest" or a brief statement of scope and nature of interest, date coordinated, and signature of authorized individual. 7. Authorized representative of the Secretary of Defense. Number: 4165.4 Date: April 12, 1954 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTRUCTION Subject: Progress Reports on Development and Construction of Housing Projects under Title VIII (Wherry Act) of the National Housing Act, as Amended (DD-P&I(Q)145). I. PURPOSE The purpose of this instruction is to revise existing requirements for reports providing data on the progress and status of housing projects under the Wherry Act. Results of this instruction will be: (1) to reduce the reporting load of the military departments by changing the frequency of the report from monthly to quarterly; (2) to obtain essential information not hitherto required; and (3) to obtain information not previously submitted for retention in Office of the Secretary of Defense. II. AUTHORITY DOD Directive 5131.1, dated August 13, 1953, authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) to obtain such reports and information from the military departments as are necessary to carry on his responsibility for the development of sound construction programs. The authority for issuance of instructions is contained in DOD Directive 5025.1, dated February 2, 1954. III. DIRECTIVE SUPERSEDED DOD Directive 4165.4 (originally 450.03-4), dated April 21, 1952, is hereby superseded. A. Reports IV. ACTION REQUIRED A report on DD form 643 (attachment 1) will be prepared in accordance with general instructions contained in attachment 2 and submitted quarterly to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) on or before the 25th day of the first month following each calendar quarter. B. Implementation The military departments will issue such orders, instructions, regulations, etc., as may be necessary to implement this instruction and will provide to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) six (6) copies all such documents prior to the initial reporting date. C. Procurement of forms The military departments will procure a supply of DD form 643 and accomplish distribution to their reporting offices. V. REPORT CONTROL SYMBOL The reporting requirements of this instruction will be executed under report control symbol DD-P&I(Q)145. Report control symbol DD-MB (M)501 is hereby cancelled. VI. EFFECTIVE DATE This instruction is effective on the date of issuance. FRANKLIN G. FLOETE, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations). 26. FHA ESTIMATE OF REPLACEMENT COST 27. COST OF LAND & IMPROVEMENTS (Expenditures of 28. TOTAL COST INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF FORM Item 1 Location. Enter names of nearest city and state. Item la Installation Served. Enter name of installation; if more than one installation is served, enter name of principal one here, footnote and enter names of remaining installations under Item 30, Remarks. Item 2 Military Department. Enter an x-mark in the appropriate box denoting the military department responsible for development of the project and whose personnel will be served; for Marine Corps projects, mark both NAVY and MC boxes. Item 3 Project Designation. Enter the project identification numbers assigned by the military department and by FHA as they become available. Item 4 - Dates of Coordination And Approval. Enter the dates coordinated by each of the other two military departments and approved for DOD (ASD-P & 1); enter "XXX" for the military department marked in Item 2. Item 5 Number Of Units. Enter the number of dwelling units in the entire project. Item 6 Planned Occupancy. Enter the numbers of dwelling units planned for occupancy by officers, enlisted men and civilian personnel; if there are no plans for occupancy by specific types of personnel, enter "NO DISTINCTION". Items 8 through 21. Enter dates (or amount) as required and as applicable; if the project was (le to be) developed by negotiation rather than by competitive bid procedure, enter "NEGOTIATION" in Item 14Advertised For Bids and leave blank all other nonapplicable items. Item 22 - Project Completed. Enter the date on which all units in the project were completed and ready for occupancy not the date of final endorsement by FHA or completion of landscaping or any other later date. Items 23 through 25 Enter name, address, date and amount, as required and as applicable. For Item 23, enter date Architect-Engineer contract was awarded and amount of contract; for Item 24, enter date bids were opened and amount of low bid; for Item 25, enter date sponsor was selected and amount of bid. If more space is required for name and address, footnote and enter in full in Item 30, Remarks. Items 26 through 28. Enter cost figures, as required and as applicable; the total cost of the project should be the sum of the entries in Items 26 and 27 -- if not, footnote and explain in Item 30- Remarks. Item 29 - Period Covered By Report. Bater an x-mark in the appropriate box and enter the year in full-for example, 1954. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARATION OF PROGRESS REPORT ON WHERRY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION-DD FORM 643 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS 1. The reporting period will be a calendar quarter. DD Form 643 (attachment 1) will be prepared as of the last day of each quarter and will be submitted to reach the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations) on or before the 25th day of the first month following the quarter covered. 2. For the initial reporting period (January-March 1954), DD Forms 643 will be prepared and submitted for all Wherry projects, regardless of current status-completed, under construction, under development, approved for development or coordinated for approval and canceled or suspended. In view of the additional work involved in the preparation of these initial reports, the due date is extended to June 15, 1954. 3. For subsequent reporting periods (beginning with April-June 1954), reports will be prepared and submitted in accordance with the schedule prescribed in paragraph 1, above. DD Form 643 will be prepared only for those active projects in which a change occurred during the reporting period-i. e., changes in the schedule of development or actual completion of a stage of development (represented by items in the report) or cancelation or suspension. A list of those active projects which underwent no change during the reporting period will be prepared and submitted to complete the report; the list will show for each project: (1) names of the nearest city and State; (2) name of installation served; (3) number of units; and (4) designation number assigned by the military department. No report or listing of previously completed projects or of canceled and suspended projects will be required. 4. For projects subsequently approved for development, the first DD Form 643 will be prepared and submitted at the end of that calendar quarter in which DOD coordination and approval is executed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Properties and Installations). 5. All applicable items of information required for DD Form 643 will be filled in as the information becomes available. Where date entries are required, enter anticipated dates for all stages not actually accomplished and enter actual dates for all completed stages. Designate actual dates by appending the letter "A"— for example, March 5, 1954 (A). 6. Specific instructions for the preparation of the report are on the reverse side of DD Form 643. Partial duplication is possible between items 26 and 27 of DD Form 643 inasmuch as the replacement cost may include expenditures under Public Law 155, 82d Congress, for onsite utilities and improvements. In order to eliminate duplication when this condition exists, enter in item 27 the amount of expenditures under Public Law 155 for land acquisition and offsite utilities and services only, and then enter in item 30, as a footnote to item 26, the amount of expenditures under Public Law 155 for onsite utilities and improvements which constitute a part of the FHA estimate of replacement costs. Senator MAYBANK. I will be glad to vote for Mr. Mason. I know of him and I know that a lot of people speak very highly of him, but at the same time we have all of these tremendous developments, and they have a bad reputation in Idaho and a worse reputation in Nevada. I tell you that is true, and if you want to see the papers, I will be glad to show them to you. Mr. MCKENNA. May I say that the reason I have some personal recollection is that right after the act was passed we had a talk to the Defense Department concerning implementing the law. Senator MAYBANK. Yes. Mr. MCKENNA. And my recollection of the law as passed is that it left an area for the exercise of judgment by both the Defense Department and the FHA, but as it worked out, the Defense Department wanted to assume more control and left less for the FHA to do under the program. Senator MAYBANK. Of course, but The CHAIRMAN. I know, and we have held executive sessions on it and, not mentioning the names, I know now of a Defense Establishment project such as we are talking about where I forget the number of units. Senator MAYBANK. 600, and there were 400, without negotiating with anybody else. I have never heard of such things. The CHAIRMAN. This is another one that I am talking about. I forget whether there were 200, 300, 400, or 500 units, and I believe only 12 of them are occupied at the moment. They have been up for about a year. One of the military branches wanted the FHA to guarantee the mortgages and proceeded to build these units and they are just sitting there empty. We have an executive hearing and we are going to have more. Senator MAYBANK. It has been bad and it has even gotten worse. If you want to put the law and so on in the record, that is the thing to do. I will make the motion that the staff study the situation as it exists between the military and the FHA and see if something cannot be worked out in a report or something so that perhaps we may be able to dovetail their operations and make somebody responsible. The CHAIRMAN. We will put in the record the exact responsibility. I would like to have that for tomorrow. We will without objection place in the record the biographical sketch of Mr. Mason. (The biographical sketch referred to follows:) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF NORMAN P. MASON Norman P. Mason, named on April 13 by the President as Acting Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, has been prominent in the building field throughout his life. Mr. Mason was born in Willsboro, N. Y., in 1896, moving to Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1910, where he went to work in his father's hardware business. He served in the Navy in World War I, and in 1923 moved to Chelmsford, Mass., to undertake operations of the Wm. P. Proctor Co. The firm operates lumber yards, a sawmill, dry kilns, and a wooden-box factory. Mr. Mason was treasurer and executive officer of the company. Other business interests of Mr. Mason included presidency of the Cooperative Reserve Supply Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., a cooperative warehouse of lumber dealers which he helped to found, and member of the board of the Central Savings Bank, a mutual savings institution of Lowell, Mass. Mr. Mason has long been identified also with industry, civic, and various Government activities in the construction field. He served as a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Housing Policies and Programs, which made recommendations in December that served as the basis of the President's new housing program. He served as committee member for the National Housing Agency's housing conference in 1945, as construction and lumber consultant for the Civilian Production Administration at the end of the war; as adviser to the Office of Price Administration during the war; as adviser on construction with the National Production Administration and as adviser to the Office of Price Stabilization during the Korean period. Mr. Mason was a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and for the past 4 years has been chairman of the chamber's construction and civic development committee, as well as being active on other committees. He served two terms as president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, of which he is a lifetime director, as well as head of State and regional lumber dealers associations. In the field of building research, he was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Building Research Institute, in the National Academy of Sciences, and on the executive committee of the Building Research Advisory Board. He is also trustee for the Lumber Dealers Research Council. Mr. Mason has been active in civic and community affairs in his home town of Chelmsford, and the Greater Lowell area, including the Community Chest, YMCA, Boy Scouts, hospital, etc. He is married and has a son, David Holmes Mason, and a married daughter, Mrs. Charles Svenson, both of Chelmsford, and four grandsons. The CHAIRMAN. I have here the endorsement of both Senators from Massachusetts, Senator Saltonstall and Senator Kennedy. Also I have a letter from Senator Saltonstall which I would like to make, if there is no objection, part of the record. (The letter referred to follows:) UNITED STATES SENATE, July 20, 1954. Hon. HOMER E. CAPEHART, Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I am informed that the name of Norman Mason of Chelmsford is to come before your committee today for confirmation. Mr. Mason has been appointed to the Housing Administration. He is a successful businessman and a Massachusetts citizen of repute. He has always been a member of the Republican Party in the northern part of our State. From my knowledge of him, and my experience with him here in Washington since he has come here, I am confident he will be helpful in administering the housing problems, and will make that Administration more efficient and more helpful to our people. With best regards, LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions? Senator MAYBANK. No, but I just want again to make the record clear. The Senate will consider the bill tomorrow, in which there are 95 percent guaranties. I want to beg the Commissioner to do his best and I know he will. There is room for corruption even greater in the new bill than under the old law. We have got to stop it and I hope we can. The CHAIRMAN. It can be stopped by regulation and administration. |