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[CITE: 40USC1101]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                CHAPTER 22--FEDERAL TRIANGLE DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 1101. Findings and purposes


(a) Findings

    The Congress finds and declares that--
        (1) it is in the national interest to build a Federal building 
    complex and establish an international cultural and trade center on 
    the Federal Triangle property in the District of Columbia;
        (2) development of such a Federal building complex will permit 
    consolidation of a number of Federal agencies which are currently 
    housed in numerous, scattered locations and will enable more 
    economical and efficient use of building space and environs;
        (3) inclusion of an international cultural and trade center 
    within the Federal building complex will create and enhance 
    opportunities for American trade, commerce, communications, and 
    cultural exchanges with other nations and complement the work of 
    Federal, State, and local agencies in the areas of international 
    trade and cultural exchange; and
        (4) the appropriate development, maintenance, and use of the 
    Federal Triangle property should be a joint development effort of 
    the General Services Administration, the Pennsylvania Avenue 
    Development Corporation, and the International Cultural and Trade 
    Center Commission.

(b) Purposes

    The purposes of this chapter are as follows:
        (1) To transfer the Federal Triangle property from the 
    Administrator of General Services to the Pennsylvania Avenue 
    Development Corporation.
        (2) To grant to the Corporation the power of eminent domain to 
    acquire certain properties and rights-of-way adjacent to the Federal 
    Triangle site and to authorize the Corporation to exercise such 
    power as may be necessary to further the public interest.
        (3) To authorize the Corporation, after consultation with the 
    Secretary of State, the Administrator, and the Commission, to 
    prepare plans for development of such property.
        (4) To establish a process for review and selection of such 
    plans and, after completion of such review process, to authorize the 
    Corporation to enter into an agreement with a private developer 
    selected for the development of such property.
        (5) To ensure that the design and construction of the Federal 
    building complex on such property will insofar as practicable be in 
    accordance with the guiding principles for Federal architecture 
    recommended by the Committee on Federal Office Space in 1962 which 
    require among other things that facilities to be used by Federal 
    agencies be efficient and economical and that public buildings 
    provide visual testimony to the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and 
    stability of the Federal Government.
        (6) To provide for establishment, operation, and maintenance of 
    a self-sustaining international cultural and trade center in such 
    complex.

(Pub. L. 100-113, Sec. 2, Aug. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 735.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 100-113 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this chapter] may be cited as the `Federal Triangle Development Act'.''


       Dissolution of Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

    Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation dissolved on or before 
Apr. 1, 1996, and assets, obligations, indebtedness, and unobligated and 
unexpended balances of Corporation transferred, see section 872 of this 
title.


  Designation of Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

    Pub. L. 104-68, Dec. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 766, provided that:
``SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.
    ``The Federal Triangle Project under construction at 14th Street and 
Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, in the District of Columbia, shall be 
known and designated as the `Ronald Reagan Building and International 
Trade Center'.
``SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
    ``Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the building referred to in section 1 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Ronald Reagan Building and 
International Trade Center'.''


                   Designation of Woodrow Wilson Plaza

    Pub. L. 103-284, Aug. 1, 1994, 108 Stat. 1448, provided: ``That the 
plaza to be constructed on the Federal Triangle property in Washington, 
DC as part of the development of such site pursuant to the Federal 
Triangle Development Act (Public Law 100-113) [this chapter] shall be 
known and designated as the `Woodrow Wilson Plaza'.''
