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[CITE: 40USC604]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
    CHAPTER 12--CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION, AND ACQUISITION OF PUBLIC 
                                BUILDINGS
 
Sec. 604. Sites


(a) Acquisition of lands or interests therein

    The Administrator is authorized to acquire, by purchase, 
condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise, such lands or interests 
in lands as he deems necessary for use as sites, or additions to sites, 
for public buildings authorized to be constructed or altered under this 
chapter.

(b) Public buildings used in whole or in part for post office purposes; 
        cooperation between Administrator and Postal Service

    Whenever a public building is to be used in whole or in part for 
post office purposes, the Administrator shall act jointly with the 
United States Postal Service in selecting the town or city wherein such 
building is to be constructed, and in selecting the site in such town or 
city for such building.

(c) Solicitation of proposals for sale, donation, or exchange of real 
        property; selection of site most advantageous to United States

    Whenever the Administrator is to acquire a site under this section, 
he may, if he deems it necessary, solicit by public advertisement, 
proposals for the sale, donation, or exchange of real property to the 
United States to be used as such site. In selecting a site under this 
section the Administrator (with the concurrence of the United States 
Postal Service if the public building to be constructed thereon is to be 
used in whole or in part for post office purposes) is authorized to 
select such site as in his estimation is the most advantageous to the 
United States, all factors considered, and to acquire such site without 
regard to title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949, as amended [41 U.S.C. 251 et seq.].

(Pub. L. 86-249, Sec. 5, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 479; Pub. L. 91-375, 
Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended, referred to in subsec. (c), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 
Stat. 393, 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 completed classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 471 of this title and Tables.

                          Transfer of Functions

    In subsecs. (b) and (c), ``United States Postal Service'' 
substituted for ``Postmaster General'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375, 
Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 
201 of Title 39, Postal Service, which abolished office of Postmaster 
General of Post Office Department and transferred its functions to 
United States Postal Service.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 603 of this title.
