Mr. WOODS. No Senator BRICKER. Or have the right to? The CHAIRMAN. I think you are going to find there will be some local option before you get through around here. I do not know exactly how to do it, but I have been thinking a lot about it as Senator Bricker has, because I try again to be practical. I just do not believe that Congress is going to pass any law here between now and the 30th of June which will give all the powers under this law. I say that not unkindly toward you, because I know a lot that has been done you were not responsible for. That is the attitude. If we had not had local option, Mr. Woods, I do not believe in the last year you would have had a rent control law, and I think you will agree with me on that. Mr. WooDs. I do. The CHAIRMAN. As there any further questions? Thank you. The committee will stand in recess until 10:30 in the morning. (Whereupon, at 4:35 p. m., the hearing was recessed until 10:30 a. m.. Thursday, May 17, 1951.) (The following were received and ordered inserted in the record :) DEFENSE PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATION, Hon. BURNET R. MAYBANK, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR MAYBANK: In response to your request through Mr. Joseph McMurray yesterday, I am enclosing a list of designated critical defense areas and a list of areas now under consideration by the Critical Areas Committee. The Critical Areas Committee was established on March 13, 1951, by the Defense Production Administrator at the request of the Office of Defense Mobilization. During the 22 months of operation the Committee has been requested to consider over 200 communities as critical defense areas for special assistance, particularly with regard to relaxation of housing credit restrictions. In 10 of these communities a severe community impact and threat to urgent defense schedules has been found and the critical area certifications have been made. The findings are almost completed on several additional areas which will be certified within a week. There are approximately 120 additional areas now under investigation by the Committee. The balance of cases have been withdrawn or have been denied as not meeting the criteria. It is difficult to estimate the amount of time required to make a finding. Some cases are fairly simple; others require careful investigation of complex industrial and military activities. In each case, the Department of Defense, Atomic Energy Commission, or National Production Authority must investigate and report the essential and nondeferable defense activities. The Department of Labor must translate the essential defense load into labor requirements and determine the amount that can be met by the local labor supply and the amount that must be met by in-migration. The Housing and Home Finance Agency and other agencies then use these findings as a basis for their investigation and findings concerning the additional housing and community facilities needed to support the essential defense activities. As indicated above, we were caught by a flood of initial requests. The Committee and participating agencies are doing their best to work off the backlog and expedite the investigations, so that essential construction in critical areas can be gotten underway now while materials and labor are available. On the other hand the Committee must carefully apply the criteria, which include the criteria in S. 349, to assure that special Federal assistance is limited to those cases where the need is clearly essential to the national defense. I appreciate the interest of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee in the critical areas program and will make every effort to keep you informed of our progress. Sincerely yours, COMMUNITIES UNDER CONSIDERATION AS CRITICAL DEFENSE AREAS, BREAKDOWN BY STATES Alabama : Muscle Shoals Arkansas: Benton Camden-Shumaker El Dorado California: Alameda County, Contra Costa Kentucky: Paducah County Louisiana: Connecticut: New London-Waterford Delaware: Dover Wilmington-Newark Florida: Jacksonville Sanford Georgia: Albany Lincolnton Marietta (Atlanta area) Moultrie Valdosta Idaho: Arco Illinois: RALPH R. KAUL, Chairman, Critical Areas Committee. Braidwood (Joliet area) Granite City Mascoutah Iowa, (Davenport, Indiana: Columbus Iowa Cedar Rapids Kansas City Labette County Topeka Wichita Minden New Orleans Maine: COMMUNITIES UNDER CONSIDERATION AS CRITICAL DEFENSE AREAS, BREAKDOWN BY STATES-Continued Up to $65. $65 to $75. $75 to $55. $85 to $90. $90 to $95 Utah: Magna Tooele Virginia: Christiansburg-Radford Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth, New port News Washington: Ephrata Kennewick-Pasco Othello HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR MANBANK: In accordance with your request of December 14, 1950, I am enclosing a current informal summary of the activities of this agency under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Sincerely yours, RAYMOND M. FOLEY, Administrator. SIXTH REPORT TO THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON DIFENSE PRODUCTION ON REAL ESTATE CREDIT CONTROLS BY THE HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR ACTION TAKEN IN IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO As related in our last report, restrictions on residential real estate construction credit-have been relaxed to a limited extent to meet the need for hoursing accommodations of employees of the Atomic Energy Commission and their contractors in the Idaho Falls, Idaho, area. The specific number of units needed to accommodate incoming defense workers has recently been announced. The credit relaxations will be extended to assist in the construction of 500 units, 250 of which are to be offered for rent and 250 for sale. In regard to the sale units, the AEC has be n authorized to issue certificates to essential immigrant workers who are permanent employees of the Commission or its contractors, entitling them to purchase homes within reasonable commuting distance of the plant under relaxed credit terms. The rental program provides that of the 250 units a minimum of 125 will have three bedrooms. The monthly rental of the units is required to be as follows: If greater production can be secured in the lower rental brackets it will be spondingly reduced in the higher ones. I appreciate the interest of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee in the critical areas program and will make every effort to keep you informed of our progress. Sincerely yours, RALPH R. KAUL, Chairman, Critical Areas Committee. COMMUNITIES UNDER CONSIDERATION AS CRITICAL DEFENSE AREAS, BREAKDOWN BY STATES Alabama: Huntsville Mobile Muscle Shoals Arizona Tucson Arkansas: Benton Camden-Shumaker El Dorado California: Barstow Escondido Imperial County Lancaster, Muroc, Palmdale Long Beach Lompoc Los Angeles Pittsburg Port Hueneme-Oxnard-Ventura Roseville San Diego Vacaville-Fairfield-Vallejo-Benicia Alameda County, Contra Costa Kentucky: Paducah County Louisiana: Indiana: Quad Cities (Davenport, Iowa, Moline and East Moline, Ill., Columbus Iowa Cedar Rapids Kansas City Labette County Topeka Wichita COMMUNITIES UNDER CONSIDERATION AS CRITICAL DEFENSE AREAS, BREAKDOWN BY STATES-Continued Up to $5. $65 to $75. $75 to $35 $85 to $90. Utah: Magna Virginia : Christiansburg-Radford Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth, New port News Washington: Bremerton Ephrata Kennewick-Pasco Othello HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR MANBANK: In accordance with your request of December 14, 1950, I am enclosing a current informal summary of the activities of this agency under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Sincerely yours, RAYMOND M. FOLEY, Administrator. SIXTH REPORT TO THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE PRODUCTION ON REAL ESTATE CREDIT CONTROLS BY THE HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR ACTION TAKEN IN IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO As related in our last report, restrictions on residential real estate construction credit-have been relaxed to a limited extent to meet the need for hoursing accommodations of employees of the Atomic Energy Commission and their contractors in the Idaho Falls, Idaho, area. The specific number of units needed to accommodate incoming defense workers has recently been announced. The credit relaxations will be extended to assist in the construction of 500 units, 250 of which are to be offered for rent and 250 for sale. In regard to the sale units, the AEC has be ́n authorized to issue certificates to essential immigrant workers who are permanent employees of the Commission or its contractors, entitling them to purchase homes within reasonable commuting distance of the plant under relaxed credit terms. The rental program provides that of the 250 units a minimum of 125 will have three bedrooms. The monthly rental of the units is required to be as follows: Units 40 60 65 50 If greater production can be secured in the lower rental brackets it will be correspondingly reduced in the higher ones. |