Senator STENNIS. All right, next item please. Admiral PRESSEY. Do you wish to proceed with the individual items there, sir? Senator STENNIS. I think that is covered all right, gentlemen, un'ess you have some more questions. I think you have covered it enough as a group. Admiral PRESSEY. The last project in this group includes six line items totaling $1,988,000 for the Pacific Missile Range, Point Mugu, Calif. Four of the items are at Point Mugu and two are on San Nicolas Island. The Pacific Missile Range is operated by the Navy and includes facilities at Point Mugu and the sea test range islands off southern California which provide range support for the Department of Defense and other Government agencies. Facilities at Point Arguello and the down range stations are in the process of being transferred to Air Force or Army management and will no longer be part of the Pacific Missile Range complex. The Navy will continue to manage the Point Mugu part of the present Pacific Missile Range. This and future programs will reflect this organizational change directed by the Secretary of Defense in November 1963. The first line item is for construction of a survival equipment shop at Point Mugu at the estimated cost of $299,000. This shop is used to repair and maintain survival equipment including liferafts, lifejackets, parachutes, and related equipment. The existing facility is deficient in working space and parachute drying tower height. It is structurally inadequate, no longer weathertight and located in an area of low ground subject to flooding. This item will provide a new building with adequate working space, tower height sufficient to handle large missile recovery parachutes and environmental control for maintaining dust free conditions necessary for these important maintenance functions. The second line item is for equipment environmental control estimated to cost $179,000. This item is necessary to provide cool, dry, clean air for safe operation of the electronics equipment in the range operations building. Present ventilating methods have proved inadequate in the dusty and humid climate of the Point Mugu area. A total of 160 tons of cooling is required for this equipment to increase reliability and lengthen life. The third line item at Point Mugu will provide a reference standards laboratory estimated to cost $592,000. This laboratory is necessary to house facilities for the checking of electronic test and measuring equipment against accurate standards to insure valid measurements of scientific data during missile and associated testing. Existing facilities are capable of handling only 31 percent of the total requirement for calibration or checking of electronic equipment. The next line item, also at Point Mugu, is for a telemetry building at the estimated cost of $491,000. The existing location of telemetering equipment is in an area of high radiofrequency interference. This equipment, which must be capable of picking up low-level signals from missile transmitters, is extremely sensitive to such interference and, consequently, test results are frequently invalidated. This item will provide a new structure, properly located and adequately shielded to minimize interference and with additional space to accommodate the existing and additional newly developed telemetry equipment required in range operations. The existing space is usable for other purposes and will be retained. The fifth line item is proposed for construction on San Nicolas Island, 60 miles from the California mainland. It is an ordnance assembly building at the estimated cost of $282,000. This item will provide a structure for the assembly of missiles on San Nicolas which are to be launched from the island. Missiles involving toxic hazards are launched from these facilities, rather than from the mainland, because of the lesser danger to populated areas. This building will permit the assembly of missile components under controlled conditions, reducing the possibility of malfunction caused by transporting of assembled missiles from the mainland as must be done under existing conditions. The final line item for PMR is for construction of two magazines on San Nicolas Island at the estimated cost of $145,000. This item is necessary to provide for the proper and safe storage of high explosive items used in the missile programs being conducted on the island. Since there are no magazine on the island at this time, quonset huts are used instead, at considerable danger to personnel. The two magazines will provide safe storage under properly controlled conditions of temperature and humidity. SUPPLY FACILITIES NAVAL SUPPLY CENTER, CHARLESTON, S.C. The next item then would be in book 2, sir, on page 66, Naval Supply Center at Charleston, S.C. On page 66a, a supply pier transit shed for $105,000. This is a 5,280-square-foot addition to an existing transit shed which we require for the outloading of resupply ships which replenish the POLARIS missile replenishment sites. Senator STENNIS. Is this your new supply center? This is a new start. Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir; this just about winds it up. Senator STENNIS. I mean it is an old installation but you have $10 million that hasn't been spent there. (Discussion off the record.) Senator STENNIS. Admiral, this says "Within the city of Charleston," and $10 million has been spent down there and only 1,100 people, so to that extent the supply center is a new setup for the Navy down there. Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir, it is. It is a new command. Senator STENNIS. How much do you estimate it is going to cost in all? According to these figures here, $10.8 million will finish it up. Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. Can we depend on that. Admiral PRESSEY. We have in this year, in this item, the third increment of the supply, shipping, receiving, and administration buildings, which is the key part of the Naval Supply Center there. We have been developing this in three increments to take care of our oversea POLARIS load. It is the major center for POLARIS supply, and the only one in the Navy. Senator STENNIS. I know that, but will this finish it up? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. And you won't be asking for any next year? Senator STENNIS. Make a memorandum of that, Mr. Clerk. Senator STENNIS. The Navy is not going to have anything in the bill for this Naval Supply Center next year at Charleston, S.C.? Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. We all know this is the center of the POLARIS supply system. Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. And I know from personal observation_the piers there are bad, and you need some additional buildings. You have two sets of POLARIS crews there at the same time; don't you? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. Those coming in and then they are retrained there. Admiral PRESSEY. Most of that has been taken care of now, Senator Saltonstall. Senator STENNIS. Anything else, Senator? Senator SALTONSTALL. I have nothing else. Admiral PRESSEY. The fourth facilities class in our program is supply facilities. It consists of four line items in three projects inside the United States for $1,713,000, and a single classified line item oversea for $267,000 for a grand total of $1,980,000. Supply activities are required for the discharge of the basic logistic functions of meeting Navy material requirements, including the procurement and distribution of materials and equipment. The first project consists of two line items for a total of $455,000 at the Naval Supply Center, Charleston, S.C. The supply center, in addition to the normal functions of a supply activity, furnishes worldwide logistic support to units and activities of the fleet ballistic missile weapons system. The first line item is for construction of a supply pier transit shed at the estimated cost of $105,000. This structure will provide a 5,280square-foot addition to an existing transit shed of 14,000 square feet, which is used in the outloading of resupply ships for replenishment of FBM tender sites in the Atlantic. The additional space is necessary to insure timely handling of an average of 4,300 measurement tons handled each month, an increased load of 300 percent over the past 3 years. The second item is the third and final increment of the receiving, shipping, and administration building at the estimated cost of $350,000. This 33,962 square foot addition is necessary to handle the steadily in 32-509-64- -24 creasing workload of the supply center occasioned by its FBM logistics support functions. No other space is available at the center to meet this increased requirement. The provision of this third increment is proceeding in accordance with the initial plan for the building construction started 3 years ago. However, the workload forecast at that time to justify construction of the complete structure has been exceeded in actual experience by an appreciable amount, making provision of this item doubly urgent. Senator STENNIS. All right, let's go to the next one, page 67. NAVAL SUPPLY CENTER, OAKLAND, CALIF Admiral PRESSEY. Oakland, Calif., on page 67-a, headquarters facilities. This is for the construction of facilities at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Calif., to provide headquarters for the Pacific branch of the Military Sea Transport Service which is now located at Fort Mason in San Francisco. It is Army property. Fort Mason is going to be closed and will be declared excess in the near future. This will convert part of the first and fifth floors of an existing storage building at the Naval Supply Center. Senator STENNIS. So this is the kind of economy drive you are putting on? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator STENNIS. You are going to convert a building rather than build a a new one. Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; this is the end of an economy project. The second project is for construction of headquarters facilities at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Calif., at the estimated cost of $590,000. The headquarters of the Pacific branch of the Military Sea Transport Service (MSTS) are now located at Fort Mason, San Francisco, Calif. Fort Mason is planned to be closed in the near future as excess to the needs of the Defense Department. This project will provide for the conversion of parts of the first and fifth floors of an existing storage building at the Naval Supply Center to house all of the headquarters functions to be relocated, including administrative medical examining operations. Senator STENNIS. All right; the next item. NAVAL SUPPLY DEPOT, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Admiral PRESSEY. The next one Naval Supply Depot, Philadelphia, boiler plant $668,000. This boiler plant provides heating power, steam for cooking and hot water production at the supply depot. There are four boilers. They are over 18 years old. Three of them are over 40 years old. The extreme age of the boilers with the attendant risk of their breakdown requires that they be operated at only part of their designed capacity. We would like to provide two new boilers and building to house them and demolish two of the existing boilers. Senator SALTONSTALL. Admiral, is this part of the Philadelphia Navy Yard? Admiral PRESSEY. It is adjacent to it. Senator SALTONSTALL. An addition to it? Admiral PRESSEY. Excuse me, sir, I am wrong. Senator SALTONSTALL. We organized the whole supply system there a few years ago. Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator SA'LTONSTALL. Is this a part of the permanent supply system? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. So that this will go on as a supply center regardless of what happens to the navy yards that Mr. McNamara is talking about? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. The third project is at the Naval Supply Depot, Philadelphia, Pa., for an addition to the boiler plant at the estimated cost of $668,000. Only one of the boilers in the heating plant is new. The other four boilers are over 18 years old, with three being 40 years old. Because of the extreme age of these boilers and the attendant risk of their breakdown, it is necessary that they be operated at only a portion of their designed capacity. This reduced performance is insufficient to meet the requirements for heating, cooking, and hot water production for industrial and domestic use. This project will provide two additional new boilers, associated equipment, and a building addition to house them. Two existing boilers will be demolished. Mr. Chairman, Brigadier General Masters, Assistant Quartermaster General of the U.S. Marine Corps, is here. He is prepared to discuss the facilities program for the Marine Corps Ground Forces. MARINE CORPS FACILITIES General MASTERS. I am Brig. Gen. John H. Masters, Assistant Quartermaster General, Marine Corps. Senator SALTONSTALL. We are glad to have you here. I say the Marines can make a dollar go farther than anyone else. That may be in dispute. General MASTERS. We have a total program of 37 line items which amounts to some $13,836,000. Senator SALTONSTALL. What page are you on, General? MARINE CORPS SUPPLY CENTER, ALBANY, GA. General MASTERS. Page 69a, sir. Down at Albany, Ga., which is a major supply center for all of the east coast Marine Corps complex, we have a central repair shop which effects major repairs to our east coast FMF tactical vehicles and sends them back to service after rehabilitation. It also sends new equipment out. In connection with that, we would put batteries in all these vehicles. The present battery |