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PSAD-79-76 1 (1979-04-18)

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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
        WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS
  ACQUISITION DIVISION
      B-163058


APR 1 B 1979


The Honorable Harold Erown
The Secretary of Defense


Dear Mr. Secretary:

     We have completed a review of Air Force activities and plans
relating to the selection and acquisition of land for basing the
MX advanced ICBM weapon system. Our objective was to deterrine
whether the Air Force has a realistic plan and is progressinQ
toward timely site selection and land acquisition.

     blthough neither the basing mode nor deployrent site have
been selected, we' assumed for our review that the MX would be
based in a vertical shelter, multiple-protective structure
system, primarily on land currently administered by the Eureau
of Land Manaaement (PLM), Department of the Interior. Ve
assumed this because:

     --The Air Force prefers vertical shelter basing.

     --The Department of Defense directed the Air Force
       to continue development of multiple-protective
       structure basing pending the outcome of a special
       air mobile basing study.

     --The Air Force's preferred siting regions are
       comprised mostly of ELM-administered public
       lands.

     According to the Department of Defense, deployment of the
MX system must begin in the mid-1980s to counter the growing
Soviet threat. Driven by that milestone, the Air Force plans
tentatively to select a deployment site in the summer of 19E.
and begin site development in the spring of 1982, which allows


PSAD 79-76
(951478)


109132


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