The seven states in which the Department of Defense has more than one billion dollar investment in real property in order of magnitude of investment are California, Texas, Alaska, Virginia, New York, Florida, and Maryland. Total costs of the military real property controlled in these seven states ($13.2 billion) represent 40 percent of the total controlled in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Property in California totals $4.3 billion or 13 percent of the total controlled by the Department of Defense within the United States.

3. Department of the Army

Real properties owned and controlled on a world-wide basis by the Department of the Army on 30 June 1966 cost $10.99 billion, an increase of 2.3 percent over the $10.75 billion one year earlier. Reductions of $72 million due to disposals of entire installations were more than offset by increases for new construction within the United States and at foreign bases. Of the Army world-wide total on a cost basis, 88.4 percent was located within the United States, 2.6 percent in U. S. possessions, and 9.0 percent in foreign countries.

Annual rentals ($42.82 million) paid by Army for property it was leasing on 30 June 1966 was more than double the $19.96 million at the previous year end. This increase was for properties in overseas areas. Of the total Army rental bill 75 percent is now for properties in foreign countries as compared with 46 percent at the previous year end. Rentals paid in foreign countries increased from $9.20 million to $32.27 million because of sharply increased requirements for facilities in connection with Southeast Asia operations.

On the basis of leases in effect on 30 June 1966, the Army was

receiving $4.5 million for properties it was outleasing for nondefense

use.

Part of this is from grazing and agricultural uses.

Total world-wide acreage under Army control as of 30 June 1966 was 15.18 million acres; 92.8 percent within the United States, 0.6 percent in U. S. possessions, and 6.6 percent in foreign countries. Of the net increase of 145 thousand acres during the year, 72 thousand, or about onehalf, was in the United States and most of the remainder of 73 thousand was in foreign countries.

Military real property under Army control within the United States as of 30 June 1966 has a total cost of $9.7 billion, an increase of $66 million during the year. About $24 million of the increase in the United States was for troop housing. The proportion of Army installations in an active status, on a dollar cost basis, at the close of the year within the United States was 89.1 percent as compared with 86.7 percent one year earlier. Table 18 presents cost and rental data reported by the Army for the military real property under its control within the United States on 30 June 1966.

On a basis of cost to the Government, Army's nonindustrial installations within the United States constituted about 78 percent of the cost of all Army installations in the United States. Based on cost, 90.4 percent of the Army nonindustrial type installations in the United States were in an active status.

The percent of industrial installation property in an active status increased from 70.2 to 84.4 percent as the result of reactivation of