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[CITE: 40USC531]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
       CHAPTER 10--MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
 
                  SUBCHAPTER V--URBAN LAND UTILIZATION
 
Sec. 531. Declaration of purpose and policy

    It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote more harmonious 
intergovernmental relations and to encourage sound planning, zoning, and 
land use practices by prescribing uniform policies and procedures 
whereby the Administrator shall acquire, use, and dispose of land in 
urban areas in order that urban land transactions entered into for the 
General Services Administration or on behalf of other Federal agencies 
shall, to the greatest extent practicable, be consistent with zoning and 
land-use practices and shall be made to the greatest extent practicable 
in accordance with planning and development objectives of the local 
governments and local planning agencies concerned.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VIII, Sec. 802, as added Pub. L. 90-577, 
title V, Sec. 501, Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1104.)


                               Short Title

    Section 801 of act June 30, 1949, as added Oct. 16, 1968, Pub. L. 
90-577, title V, Sec. 501, 82 Stat. 1104, provided that: ``This title 
[enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the `Federal Urban Land-Use 
Act'.''
