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[CITE: 40USC258c]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 258c. Obligation of United States to pay ultimate award 
        when fixed
        
    Action under section 258a of this title irrevocably committing the 
United States to the payment of the ultimate award shall not be taken 
unless the chief of the executive department or agency or bureau of the 
Government empowered to acquire the land shall be of the opinion that 
the ultimate award probably will be within any limits prescribed by 
Congress on the price to be paid.

(Feb. 26, 1931, ch. 307, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 1422.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 258e-1 of this title; title 
10 section 7422; title 16 section 831c; title 25 section 500a; title 33 
section 598; title 39 section 410; title 42 sections 1502, 1594a, 2222.
