Pub. L. 89-568, tit. VI, sec. 613

Sec. 613. Section 611 of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1966 (79 Stat. 818), is amended to read as follows: “(a) No camp, post, station, base, yard, or other installation under the authority of the Department of Defense shall be closed or abandoned until the expiration of thirty days of continuous session of the Congress following the date on which the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department makes a full report of the facts including the justification for such proposed action to the Congress. “(b) For the purposes of subparagraph (a) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die; but in the computation of the thirty-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain. “(c) This section shall apply only to posts, camps, stations, bases, yards, or other installations that are located in the United States and Puerto Rico and have a total military and civilian complement of more than two hundred and fifty. It shall not apply to any facility used primarily for river and harbor projects or flood control projects.”