3.0.0 1503 2023-01-11T13:22:29Z 2023-01-11T13:22:29Z Senate S S 2011-08-02 112 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-08-02T21:11:34Z CPRA 112 1734 HR 2012-02-09 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Related bill CRS CPRA 112 2232 S 2012-03-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS 2011-08-02 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2011-08-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001268 Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA] Scott Brown R MA P. N P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2012-02-16 False Government Operations and Politics Advisory bodies Congressional oversight Department of State Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Energy efficiency and conservation Government buildings, facilities, and property Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Homelessness and emergency shelter Land transfers Legislative rules and procedure Public contracts and procurement Government Operations and Politics 00 2011-08-02 Introduced in Senate 2011-09-08T19:12:22Z Civilian Property Realignment Act or CPRA - Establishes the Civilian Property Realignment Commission, to be headed by an Executive Director, to: (1) identify opportunities to reduce significantly the federal government's inventory and cost of federal civilian real property, (2) identify not less than five federal properties with a total fair market value of not less than $500 million to be sold, (3) perform an independent analysis of such inventory, (4) transmit to the President its findings and recommendations for consolidating or otherwise reducing such inventory, and (5) establish and maintain a website for making relevant information about federal civilian real property publicly available. Exempts from the application of this Act certain military installations, properties necessary for national security, properties reserved for national forest or national park purposes, Indian and Native Eskimo property held in trust, properties operated and maintained by the Tennesseee Valley Authority (TVA), and postal properties.

Requires federal agencies to submit to the Administrator of General Services (GSA) and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on an annual basis: (1) current data of all federal civilian real properties, and (2) recommendations for the sale or other disposition of those properties and for operational efficiencies. Requires the Administrator to develop standards and criteria for such sale or disposal.

Provides for a review of the Commission's recommendations by the President and Congress. Establishes procedures for the approval or disapproval of, and for implementation of, such recommendations.

Exempts properties included in the recommendations for disposal or realignment under this Act from certain public benefit conveyance requirements, including the McKinney-Vento Act (requiring surplus property to be used to assist the homeless).

Limits the authority of executive agencies to lease space for the purposes of a public building.

Requires the Commission to identify and create, on an annual basis, a list of assets located outside of the United States and its territories that are owned or managed by the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations of the Department of State that may be sold to reduce civilian real property inventory or be otherwise disposed of, transferred, or consolidated.

Requires OMB and GSA to provide specified congressional committees, upon request, access to the Federal Real Property Profile established by Executive Order 13327, dated February 4, 2004, and make all information in such Profile available to the committees. Requires OMB to make such Profile available to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) upon the request of the Comptroller General.

Requires each federal agency, not later than three years after the enactment of this Act, to sell, dispose, transfer, exchange, consolidate, co-locate, reconfigure, or redevelop any property that is deemed excess property.

]]> Civilian Property Realignment Act Display Title Civilian Property Realignment Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to decrease the deficit by realigning, consolidating, selling, disposing, and improving the efficiency of Federal buildings and other civilian real property, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Civilian Property Realignment Act Short Titles as Introduced CPRA Introduced in Senate 2011-08-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1503is/xml/BILLS-112s1503is.xml 2011-08-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.