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[CITE: 40USC612]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
    CHAPTER 12--CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION, AND ACQUISITION OF PUBLIC 
                                BUILDINGS
 
Sec. 612. Definitions

    As used in this chapter--
    (1) The term ``public building'' means any building, whether for 
single or multitenant occupancy, its grounds, approaches, and 
appurtenances, which is generally suitable for office or storage space 
or both for the use of one or more Federal agencies or mixed ownership 
corporations, and shall include: (i) Federal office buildings, (ii) post 
office, (iii) customhouses, (iv) courthouses, (v) appraisers stores, 
(vi) border inspection facilities, (vii) warehouses, (viii) record 
centers, (ix) relocation facilities, (x) telecommuting centers and \1\ 
(xi) similar Federal facilities, and (xii) any other buildings or 
construction projects the inclusion of which the President may deem, 
from time to time hereafter, to be justified in the public interest; but 
shall not include any such buildings and construction projects: (A) on 
the public domain (including that reserved for national forests and 
other purposes), (B) on properties of the United States in foreign 
countries, (C) on Indian and native Eskimo properties held in trust by 
the United States, (D) on lands used in connection with Federal programs 
for agricultural, recreational, and conservation purposes, including 
research in connection therewith, (E) on or used in connection with 
river, harbor, flood control, reclamation or power projects, or for 
chemical manufacturing or development projects, or for nuclear 
production, research, or development projects, (F) on or used in 
connection with housing and residential projects, (G) on military 
installations (including any fort, camp, post, naval training station, 
airfield, proving ground, military supply depot, military school, or any 
similar facility of the Department of Defense), (H) on installations of 
the Department of Veterans Affairs used for hospital or domiciliary 
purposes, and (I) the exclusion of which the President may deem, from 
time to time hereafter, to be justified in the public interest.
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    (2) The term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of General 
Services.
    (3) The term ``Federal agency'' means any executive agency or any 
establishment in the legislative or judicial branch of the Government 
(except the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Architect of 
the Capitol and any activities under his direction).
    (4) The term ``executive agency'' means any executive department or 
independent establishment in the executive branch of the Government 
including any wholly owned Government corporation and including (A) the 
Central-Bank for Cooperatives and the regional banks for cooperatives, 
(B) Federal land banks, (C) Federal intermediate credit banks, [(D) 
Repealed. Pub. L. 101-73, title VII, Sec. 744(g), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 
Stat. 438], (E) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and (F) the 
Government National Mortgage Association.
    (5) The term ``alter'' includes repairing, remodeling, improving, or 
extending or other changes in a public building.
    (6) The terms ``construct'' and ``alter'' include preliminary 
planning, engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic 
investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, 
specifications, procedures, and other similar actions necessary for the 
construction or alteration, as the case may be, of a public building.
    (7) The term ``United States'' includes the several States, the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the 
possessions of the United States.

(Pub. L. 86-249, Sec. 13, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 482; Pub. L. 90-448, 
title VIII, Sec. 807(f), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 544; Pub. L. 101-73, 
title VII, Sec. 744(g), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 438; Pub. L. 102-54, 
Sec. 13(o), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 278; Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, title 
I, Sec. 101(f) [title IV, Sec. 407(b)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-
314, 3009-338.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Par. (1)(x) to (xii). Pub. L. 104-208 added cl. (x) and 
redesignated former cls. (x) and (xi) as (xi) and (xii), respectively.
    1991--Par. (1)(H). Pub. L. 102-54 substituted ``installations of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs'' for ``Veterans' Administration 
installations''.
    1989--Par. (4)(D). Pub. L. 101-73 struck out subpar. (D) which read 
as follows: ``Federal home loan banks,''.
    1968--Par. (4). Pub. L. 90-448 substituted ``Government National 
Mortgage Association'' for ``Federal National Mortgage Association''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 490 of this title; title 15 
section 205c; title 42 section 8287c; title 49 section 40110.
