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[CITE: 40USC304b]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 304b. Alterations and repairs to real property assigned; 
        payment by agency
        
    Whenever after investigation it is determined by the Administrator 
of General Services that any such real property should be used for the 
accommodation of any Federal agency or agencies, the Administrator of 
General Services is authorized to make any repairs thereto or 
alterations thereof which he deems necessary or advisable and to 
maintain and operate the same. To the extent that the appropriations of 
the General Services Administration not otherwise allocated are 
inadequate for such repairs, alterations, maintenance, or operation, the 
Administrator of General Services may require each Federal agency to 
which space has been assigned therein pursuant to the provisions of 
section 304a of this title to pay promptly by check to the Administrator 
of General Services out of its appropriation for rent, either in advance 
of or upon or during occupancy of such space, all or part of the 
estimated or actual cost of such repairs, alterations, maintenance, and 
operation: Provided, That the total amount so to be paid shall be 
determined and equitably apportioned by the Administrator of General 
Services among the Federal agencies to whom space has been so assigned.

(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 744, Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 886; July 18, 1940, ch. 635, 
Sec. 3, 54 Stat. 765; June 14, 1946, ch. 404, Sec. 4, 60 Stat. 257; June 
30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380.)


                               Amendments

    1946--Act June 14, 1946, repealed last two provisos relating to 
computation of rates of assigned space.
    1940--Act July 18, 1940, substituted ``Federal Works 
Administrator'', ``Commissioner of Public Buildings'', and ``Public 
Buildings Administration'' for ``Secretary of the Treasury'', ``Director 
of Procurement'', and ``Procurement Division'', respectively, throughout 
section.

                          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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 304a-1, 304a-2, 304d, 304e 
of this title; title 16 section 459t.
