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[CITE: 40USC295]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 295. Operation of public utility communications services 
        serving governmental activities
        
    The Administrator of General Services is authorized to provide and 
operate public utility communications services serving one or more 
governmental activities, in and outside the District of Columbia, where 
it is found that such services are economical and in the interest of the 
Government. This section does not apply to communications systems for 
handling messages of a confidential or secret nature, or to the 
operation of cryptographic equipment or transmission of secret, 
security, or coded messages, or to buildings operated or occupied by the 
United States Postal Service, except upon request of the department or 
agency concerned.

(June 14, 1946, ch. 404, Sec. 7, 60 Stat. 258; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 
title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 91-375, Secs. 4(a), 6(o), 
Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773, 783.)

                         Change of Name

    ``United States Postal Service'' substituted in text for ``Post 
Office Department'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375 which abolished Post 
Office Department, transferred its functions to United States Postal 
Service, and provided that references in other laws to Post Office 
Department shall be considered a reference to United States Postal 
Service.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public 
Buildings Administration transferred to Administrator of General 
Services by section 103(a) of act June 30, 1949, which is classified to 
section 753(a) of this title. Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings 
and Public Buildings Administration abolished by section 103(b) of act 
June 30, 1949.

                 Effective Date of Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, 
see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as an Effective Date note 
under section 471 of this title.
