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[CITE: 40USC356a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 6--ACQUISITION OF SITES FOR AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS
 
Sec. 356a. Exercise of lease purchase contract authority


(a) Southwestern portion of District of Columbia; conformance to 
        Redevelopment Act; terms of contracts

    In exercising the authority contained in section 356 of this title 
within the southwestern portion of the District of Columbia, the 
Administrator of General Services shall conform to the plan for 
redevelopment of that area pursuant to the District of Columbia 
Redevelopment Act of 1945 [D.C. Code, Sec. 5-801 et seq.]. Purchase 
contract agreements for this area shall be for terms of not less than 
ten years nor more than thirty years.

(b) Authority to exchange lands

    The Administrator of General Services is authorized to transfer 
lands of the United States under his control needed by the District of 
Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency to said Agency within the 
southwestern portion of the District of Columbia, and in consideration 
therefor, to accept from said Agency other lands and interests of 
equivalent value within the same area.

(c) Demolition of temporary buildings

    Whenever the Administrator of General Services initially occupies a 
building in the southwestern portion of the District of Columbia 
pursuant to a purchase contract agreement, he shall thereupon cause to 
be demolished temporary Government building space in the District of 
Columbia of equivalent occupancy.

(d) Authority to negotiate purchase contracts

    In exercising the authority contained in section 356 of this title 
within the southwestern portion of the District of Columbia, the 
Administrator of General Services is authorized, pursuant to section 
302(c)(14) \1\ of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949, as amended [41 U.S.C. 252(c)(14)], to negotiate purchase 
contracts, in accordance with title III of such Act [41 U.S.C. 251 et 
seq.]. In negotiating such contracts, the Administrator shall take all 
practicable steps to insure competition among prospective contractors.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(June 16, 1949, ch. 218, title IV, Sec. 412, as added July 12, 1955, ch. 
331, 69 Stat. 297.)

                       References in Text

    The District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, referred to in 
subsec. (a), is act Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 736, 60 Stat. 790, as amended, 
which appears in chapter 8 (Sec. 5-801 et seq.) of Title 5, Building 
Restrictions and Regulations, of the District of Columbia Code.
    Subsection (c) of section 302 of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. (d), was 
struck out by section 2714(a)(1)(B) of Pub. L. 98-369 and provisions 
formerly contained in subsection (e) were restated in subsection (c)(1) 
of section 302 of the 1949 Act.
    The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended, referred to in subsec. (d), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 
Stat. 377, as amended. Title III of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 is classified generally to 
subchapter IV (Sec. 251 et seq.) of chapter 4 of Title 41, Public 
Contracts. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 471 of this title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Provisions of subsecs. (e) and (f) of this section, relating to the 
five year time limitation from July 22, 1954 for Congressional approval 
of purchase contract projects within the southwestern portion of the 
District of Columbia and the required publication in the Federal 
Register of the prospectus for such a project at the time of submission 
for Congressional approval, respectively have been omitted.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 412 of act June 16, 1949, was renumbered section 413 
and is set out as a note under section 298a of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of powers, duties, and functions of District of 
Columbia Land Redevelopment Agency, as set forth in section 5-801 et 
seq. of the District of Columbia Code, to Director of Department of 
Housing and Community Development, with certain exceptions, see part 4 
of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1975, eff. July 3, 1975, 21 DCR 2793, set out in 
the first volume of the District of Columbia Code.
