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[CITE: 40USC1201]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
            CHAPTER 23--JUDICIARY OFFICE BUILDING DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 1201. Findings and purposes


(a) Findings

    The Congress makes the following findings and declarations:
        (1) Space for consolidation of activities of the Administrative 
    Office of the United States Courts and other offices of the judicial 
    branch of Government and for providing office space for retired 
    justices of the Supreme Court is necessary and should be located in 
    the vicinity of the Supreme Court building.
        (2) Orderly development of the Capitol Grounds should be 
    consistent with the Master Plan for the United States Capitol, dated 
    1981.
        (3) The cost of leasing space by the judicial branch of the 
    Government is high.
        (4) Development of squares 721 and 722 in the District of 
    Columbia is necessary to achieve the objectives of the Union Station 
    Redevelopment Act [40 U.S.C. 811 et seq.] and the revitalization of 
    the Union Station area.
        (5) The Judicial Conference of the United States endorsed by 
    resolution the construction of an office building on the Capitol 
    Grounds to house the Administrative Office of the United States 
    Courts and related judicial branch offices.

(b) Purposes

    The purposes of this chapter are as follows:
        (1) To implement the report submitted to Congress by the 
    Architect and the Secretary of Transportation under the Act of 
    December 28, 1985 (99 Stat. 1749-1750), relating to the needs of the 
    Federal judiciary for additional Federal office space.
        (2) To authorize the Architect to acquire by lease space 
    primarily for use by the judicial branch of the Government by 
    entering into contracts for the design and construction of a 
    building adjacent to Union Station.
        (3) To ensure that the design and construction of such building 
    will insofar as practicable result in a building which is efficient 
    and economical and which provides visual testimony to the dignity, 
    enterprise, vigor, and stability of the Federal Government.

(Pub. L. 100-480, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2328.)

                       References in Text

    The Union Station Redevelopment Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(4), 
probably means the Union Station Redevelopment Act of 1981, Pub. L. 97-
125, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1667, as amended, which is classified 
principally to part B (Sec. 811 et seq.) of subchapter I of chapter 18 
of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title of 1981 Amendment note set out under section 801 of this 
title and Tables.
    Act of December 28, 1985, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is Pub. L. 
99-229, Dec. 28, 1985, 99 Stat. 1749, which is not classified to the 
Code.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 100-480 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this chapter and amending section 816 of this title] may be cited as the 
``Judiciary Office Building Development Act'.''


                         Designation of Building

    Pub. L. 103-4, Feb. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 30, provided that:
``SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.
    ``The Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., shall be known 
and designated as the `Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building'.
``SEC. 2. LEGAL REFERENCES.
    ``Any reference in any law, map, regulation, document, paper, or 
other record of the United States to the Federal Judiciary Building 
referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
`Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building'.''
