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[CITE: 40USC871]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
   CHAPTER 19--CAPITOL AND WHITE HOUSE-PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 871. Congressional findings

    The Congress finds and declares--
        (a) that it is in the national interest that the area adjacent 
    to Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, most 
    of which was designated on September 30, 1965, as a national 
    historic site under the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 (16 
    U.S.C. 461 et seq.) be developed, maintained, and used in a manner 
    suitable to its ceremonial, physical, and historic relationship to 
    the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government and 
    to the governmental buildings, monuments, memorials, and parks in or 
    adjacent to the area;
        (b) that the area adjacent to Pennsylvania Avenue between the 
    Capitol and the White House, because of its blighted character, 
    imposes severe public, economic, and social liabilities upon the 
    District of Columbia as the seat of the government of the United 
    States, thereby impeding its sound growth and development and 
    constituting a serious and growing threat to the public health, 
    safety, morals, and welfare of its inhabitants;
        (c) that to insure suitable development, maintenance, and use of 
    the area and the elimination of blight, it is essential that there 
    be developed and carried out as an entirety plans for this area 
    which will specify the uses, both public and private, to which 
    property is to be put, the programing and financing of necessary 
    acquisitions, construction, reconstruction, and other activities;
        (d) that such duties and responsibilities can best be developed 
    and carried out by vesting the requisite powers in a Federal 
    corporation which can take maximum advantage of the private as well 
    as the public resources which will be necessary;
        (e) that the powers conferred by this chapter are for public 
    uses and purposes for which public powers may be employed, public 
    funds may be expended, and the power of eminent domain and the 
    police power may be exercised, and the granting of such powers is 
    necessary in the public interest; and
        (f) that the area thus to be developed, maintained, and used in 
    accordance with the provisions of this chapter (hereinafter referred 
    to as the development area) shall be the area bounded as follows:
        Beginning at a point on the south west corner of the 
    intersection of Fifteenth Street and E Street Northwest;
        thence proceeding easterly along the southerly side of E Street 
    to the southwest corner of the intersection of Thirteenth Street and 
    Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest;
        thence southeasterly along the southerly side of Pennsylvania 
    Avenue to a point being the southeast corner of the intersection of 
    Pennsylvania Avenue and Third Street Northwest;
        thence northerly along the east side of Third Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of C Street and Third Street 
    Northwest;
        thence westerly along the north side of C Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of C Street and Sixth Street 
    Northwest;
        thence northerly along the east side of Sixth Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of E Street and Sixth Street 
    Northwest;
        thence westerly along the north side of E Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of E Street and Seventh Street 
    Northwest;
        thence northerly along the east side of Seventh Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of Seventh Street and F Street 
    Northwest;
        thence westerly along the north side of F Street to the 
    northwest corner of the intersection of F Street and Ninth Street 
    Northwest;
        thence southerly along the west side of Ninth Street to the 
    northwest corner of the intersection of Ninth Street and E Street 
    Northwest;
        thence westerly along the north side of E Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of E Street and Thirteenth 
    Street Northwest;
        thence northerly along the east side of Thirteenth Street to the 
    northeast corner of the intersection of F Street and Thirteenth 
    Street Northwest;
        thence westerly along the north side of F Street to the 
    northwest corner of the intersection of F Street and Fifteenth 
    Street Northwest;
        thence northerly along the west side of Fifteenth Street to the 
    northwest corner of the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 
    Fifteenth Street Northwest;
        thence westerly along the southern side of Pennsylvania Avenue 
    to the southeast corner of the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue 
    and East Executive Avenue Northwest;
        thence southerly along the east side of East Executive Avenue to 
    the intersection of South Executive Place and E Street Northwest;
        thence easterly along the south side of E Street to the point of 
    beginning being the southwest corner of the intersection of 
    Fifteenth Street and E Street Northwest.

(Pub. L. 92-578, Sec. 2, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1266.)

                       References in Text

    The Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935, referred to in subsec. 
(a), which is also known as the Historic Sites, Buildings, and 
Antiquities Act, is act Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 593, 49 Stat. 666, as 
amended, which is classified to sections 461 to 467 of Title 16, 
Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code see 
Short Title note set out under section 461 of Title 16 and Tables.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 92-578 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
chapter and amending section 846 of former Title 31, Money and Finance] 
may be cited as the `Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 
1972'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1104 of this title.
