Review of Navy's Fiscal Year 1979 Appropriation Request for Funds To Construct Trident Base Support Facilities and for Community Impact Assistance

The Navy's Trident submarine base under construction in Kitsap County, Washington, includes facilities for missile assembly, maintenance, and storage; personnel training and housing; and maintenance of the 10-ship Trident squadron. The fiscal year 1979 appropriation request for the Trident military construction program includes $6.34 million for construction of four Trident base projects and $10.3 million for community impact assistance.

Because of slippage in the delivery date of the first submarines, two projects with estimated costs totaling $1.54 million could be deferred until fiscal year 1980 or later. Another project could be reduced in scope, resulting in a cost reduction of $385,000 in the 1979 request. The Navy could probably fund the remaining projects in its fiscal year 1979 request with unused funds from prior projects. About $4.9 million in prior years' community impact appropriations could be used to reduce the fiscal year 1979 appropriation request for impact assistance. The Office of Economic Adjustment's $44 million estimate for community impact assistance to State and local governments could be reduced by about $9.1 million because expected motor fuel and license tax revenues were not fully considered as a local funding source and some road and school costs were overestimated. Controls are needed to assure that all planned Trident-related community impact projects which have been used to justify impact assistance payments are constructed.

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