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[CITE: 40USC129a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 129a. Courthouse construction authorized; cost; repayment 
        to United States
        
    The Administrator of General Services is hereby authorized to 
construct, equip, and furnish the building for the use of the United 
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the United 
States District Court for the District of Columbia, the planning and 
site acquisition of which were authorized by the Act of May 29, 1947 
(Public Law 80, Eightieth Congress), under a total limit of cost for the 
entire project of $18,665,000, including architectural, engineering, and 
administrative expenses (which limit of cost also includes the credit of 
$2,420,000 granted the District of Columbia as compensation for the site 
of the project by said Act of May 29, 1947, and the $370,000 for plans 
and specifications heretofore appropriated under Public Law 271, 
Eightieth Congress, approved July 30, 1947): Provided, That the Mayor of 
the District of Columbia shall repay to the United States, over a period 
of twenty-five years, 50 per centum of the cost of the entire project 
upon completion, less the credit of $2,420,000 granted the District of 
Columbia as compensation for the site of the project by said Act of May 
29, 1947, in equal annual installments, beginning with the July 1 next 
following the date of completion of the project: Provided further, That 
the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the completed project 
shall be divided equally between the United States of America and the 
District of Columbia.

(May 14, 1948, ch. 290, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 235; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 
Sec. 32(b), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec. 127, 63 Stat. 107; 
June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380; 1967 Reorg. 
Plan No. 3, Sec. 401, eff. Aug. 11, 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 951; 
Pub. L. 93-198, title IV, Sec. 421, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 789.)

                       References in Text

    Act of May 29, 1947 (Public Law 80, Eightieth Congress), and Public 
Law 271, Eightieth Congress, approved July 30, 1947, referred to in 
text, are not classified to the Code.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States District Court for the District of Columbia'' 
substituted in text for ``District Court of the United States for the 
District of Columbia'' on authority of act June 25, 1948, Sec. 32(b), as 
amended by act May 24, 1949, Sec. 127.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions, powers and duties of Federal Works Administrator 
transferred to Administrator of General Services by act June 30, 1949, 
Sec. 103(a), which is classified to section 753(a) of this title.
    Except as otherwise provided in Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, functions 
of Board of Commissioners of District of Columbia transferred to 
Commissioner of District of Columbia by section 401 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 
of 1967. Office of Commissioner of District of Columbia, as established 
by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. 
L. 93-198, title VII, Sec. 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, and 
replaced by office of Mayor of District of Columbia by section 421 of 
Pub. L. 93-198, classified to section 1-241 of the District of Columbia 
Code. Accordingly, ``Mayor'' substituted in text for ``commissioners''.


        E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse Designation

    Pub. L. 104-151, July 1, 1996, 110 Stat. 1383, provided that:
``SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF COURTHOUSE.
    ``The United States courthouse located at 3rd Street and 
Constitution Avenue, Northwest, in Washington, District of Columbia, 
shall be designated and known as the `E. Barrett Prettyman United States 
Courthouse'.
``SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
    ``Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the United States courthouse referred to 
in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the `E. Barrett 
Prettyman United States Courthouse'.''


   Cancellation of District of Columbia's Share of Costs of Courthouse

    Pub. L. 91-358, title I, Sec. 173(a)(1), July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 
591, provided that: ``All outstanding and future obligations of the 
Commissioner [now Mayor] of the District of Columbia with respect to the 
District of Columbia's share of the cost of construction, operation, 
maintenance, and repair of the United States courthouse in the District 
of Columbia, as required by the Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235) [this 
section], are canceled upon the effective date of this title [Feb. 1, 
1971].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 130a of this title.
