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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 40USC71f]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 71f. Capital improvements


(a) Six-year program of public works; recommendations and annual review; 
        submission of advance programs

    The Commission shall recommend a six-year program of public works 
projects for the Federal Government which it shall review annually with 
the agencies concerned. To this end, each Federal agency shall submit to 
the Commission in the first quarter of each fiscal year a copy of its 
advance program of capital improvements within the National Capital and 
its environs.

(b) Submission of multiyear capital improvement plan

    The Mayor shall submit to the Commission, by February 1 of each 
year, a copy of the multiyear capital improvements plan for the District 
developed by him under section 444 of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
Act [D.C. Code, Sec. 47-303]. The Commission shall have thirty days 
within which to comment upon such plan but shall have no authority to 
change or disapprove of such plan.

(June 6, 1924, ch. 270, Sec. 7, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, Sec. 1, 
66 Stat. 789; amended 1967 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 402(32), eff. Nov. 3, 
1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 93-198, title II, 
Sec. 203(f), title IV, Sec. 421, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 782, 789; Pub. 
L. 105-33, title XI, Sec. 11717(b), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 786.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 1-2005.


                            Prior Provisions

    Similar provisions relating to preparation and maintenance of a 
comprehensive plan for the National Capital and its environs, including 
public works, and for cooperation between the former National Capital 
Park and Planning Commission and Federal and District Governments were 
contained in section 71 of this title prior to amendment by act July 19, 
1952.


                               Amendments

    1997--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-33 substituted ``District of Columbia 
Home Rule Act'' for ``District of Columbia Self-Government and 
Governmental Reorganization Act''.
    1973--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-198 designated existing provisions as 
subsec. (a), inserted ``for the Federal Government'' after ``public 
works projects'', and struck out ``and the District of Columbia 
Council'' after ``Federal agency''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-198 added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1997 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 105-33 effective Oct. 1, 1997, except as 
otherwise provided in title XI of Pub. L. 105-33, see section 11721 of 
Pub. L. 105-33, set out as a note under section 4246 of Title 18, Crimes 
and Criminal Procedure.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Except as otherwise provided in Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, functions 
of Board of Commissioners of District of Columbia transferred to 
Commissioner of District of Columbia by section 401 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 
of 1967. Office of Commissioner of District of Columbia, as established 
by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. 
L. 93-198, title VII, Sec. 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, and 
replaced by office of Mayor of District of Columbia by section 421 of 
Pub. L. 93-198, classified to section 1-241 of the District of Columbia 
Code. Accordingly, ``Mayor'' substituted in subsec. (b) for 
``commissioner''.
    Previously, reference to the Board of Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia had been changed to the District of Columbia Council 
pursuant to section 402(32) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, 32 
F.R. 11669, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, which transferred the regulatory and other functions of 
the Board of Commissioners relating to the submission of a copy of the 
District's advance program of capital improvements to the National 
Capital Planning Commission, to the District of Columbia Council, 
subject to the right of the Commissioner as provided by section 406 of 
the Plan. For provisions establishing the District of Columbia Council, 
see section 201 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967.


                               Definitions

    The definitions in section 1-202 of the District of Columbia Code 
apply to this section as amended by Pub. L. 93-198.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 71, 71a, 71i, 72, 72a, 136 
of this title.
