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[CITE: 40USC610]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
    CHAPTER 12--CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION, AND ACQUISITION OF PUBLIC 
                                BUILDINGS
 
Sec. 610. Report to Congress; uncompleted projects; building 
        project surveys
        
    (a) Upon the request of either House of Congress, or any committee 
thereof, and within a reasonable time, the Administrator shall submit a 
report showing the location, space, cost, and status, of each public 
building the construction, alteration, or acquisition of which is to be 
under authority of this chapter and which was uncompleted as of the date 
of the request, or as of such other date as the request may designate.
    (b) The Administrator and the United States Postal Service are 
authorized and directed to make such building project surveys as may be 
requested by resolution by either the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and 
Transportation of the House of Representatives, and within a reasonable 
time shall make a report thereon to the Congress. Such report shall 
contain all other information required to be included in a prospectus of 
the proposed public building project under section 606(a) of this title.

(Pub. L. 86-249, Sec. 11, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 481; Pub. L. 91-375, 
Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773; Pub. L. 96-470, title II, 
Sec. 211, Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2246; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 14(b)(2), 
Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4591.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on 
Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public 
Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives'' for 
``Committee on Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public 
Works of the House of Representatives''.
    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-470 substituted ``Upon the request of 
either House of Congress, or any committee thereof, and within a 
reasonable time, the Administrator shall submit'' for ``The 
Administrator shall submit to Congress each January, promptly after the 
convening of Congress,'' and ``request, or as of such other date as the 
request may designate'' for ``last preceding report made under this 
chapter''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Public Works and Transportation of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 
104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.

                          Transfer of Functions

    In subsec. (b), ``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.


                            Cross References

    Design and construction of public buildings to accommodate the 
physically handicapped, see section 4151 et seq. of Title 42, The Public 
Health and Welfare.
