unit cost limitations

unit cost limitations Sec. 606. None of the authority contained in titles I, II, III, and IV of this Act shall be deemed to authorize any building construction project inside the United States in excess of a unit cost to be determined in proportion to the appropriate area construction cost index, based on the following unit cost limitations where the area construction index is 1.0: (1) $39 per square, foot for permanent barracks; (2) $42 per square foot for bachelor officer quarters; unless the Secretary of Defense, or his designee, determines that because of special circumstances application to such project of the limitations on unit costs contained in this section is impracticable. Notwithstanding the limitations contained in prior Military Construction Authorization Acts on unit costs, the limitations on such costs contained in this section shall apply to all prior authorizations for such construction not heretofore repealed and for which construction contracts have not been awarded by the date of enactment of this Act.