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[CITE: 40USC816]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
     CHAPTER 18--NATIONAL VISITOR CENTER FACILITIES; UNION STATION 
                  REDEVELOPMENT; CAPITOL GUIDE SERVICE
 
                       SUBCHAPTER I--UNION STATION
 
                   Part B--Union Station Redevelopment
 
Sec. 816. Acquisition and maintenance of property

    (a)(1) The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to acquire for 
the United States, by lease, purchase, or otherwise, any interest in 
real property (including, without limitation, interests in the nature of 
easements or reservations) and any other property interest (including, 
without limitation, contract rights) in or relating or adjacent to the 
Union Station complex that the Secretary of Transportation deems 
necessary to carry out the purposes of this part.
    (2) Repealed. Pub. L. 100-480, Sec. 8, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2334.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Transportation is authorized to maintain, use, operate, manage, and 
lease, either directly, by contract, or through development agreements, 
any property interest held or acquired by the Secretary of 
Transportation for the United States under this part, in such manner and 
subject to such terms, conditions, covenants, and easements as the 
Secretary of Transportation deems necessary or desirable to carry out 
the purposes of this part.

(Pub. L. 90-264, title I, Sec. 116, as added Pub. L. 97-125, Sec. 3(3), 
Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1671; amended Pub. L. 100-480, Sec. 8, Oct. 7, 
1988, 102 Stat. 2334.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 100-480 struck out par. (2) which read 
as follows: ``If the Secretary of Transportation determines that 
property under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol in 
squares 721 and 722 eastward of the historic Union Station building is 
necessary to carry out the purposes of this part, the Secretary of 
Transportation may request assignment of such property to the use of the 
Secretary of Transportation, as a part of the Union Station complex, and 
subject to the provisions of this part, and the Architect of the Capitol 
shall so assign such property.''
