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[CITE: 40USC74a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 74a. Sale by the Secretary of the Interior of lands no 
        longer needed for public purposes
        
    The Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the National 
Capital Planning Commission, is authorized, in his discretion, for the 
best interests of the United States, to sell and convey, in whole or in 
part, by proper deed or instrument, any real estate held by the United 
States in the District of Columbia and under the jurisdiction of the 
National Park Service, which may be no longer needed for public purposes 
for cash, or on such deferred-payment plan as the Secretary of the 
Interior may approve, at a price not less than that paid for it by the 
Government and not less than its present appraised value as determined 
by him.

(Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, Sec. 4, 53 Stat. 1211; June 6, 1924, ch. 279, 
Sec. 9, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 790.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-404.


                                 Repeals

    Section 7 of act Aug. 5, 1939, repealed all acts and parts of acts 
inconsistent or in conflict therewith.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``National Capital Planning Commission'' substituted in text for 
``National Capital Park and Planning Commission'', on authority of act 
June 6, 1924, ch. 270, Sec. 9, as added July 19, 1952, which transferred 
functions of latter to former. See section 71h of this title and 
Transfer of Functions note thereunder.
    Functions of all other officers of Department of the Interior and 
functions of all agencies and employees of that Department, with two 
exceptions, transferred to Secretary of the Interior, with power vested 
in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. 
Plan No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees. National Park Service, referred to in text, is an agency 
of Department of the Interior.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 72e, 74b of this title.
