[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1951 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1951

  To amend the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 to authorize 
   construction, maintenance, and operation of a new stadium in the 
             District of Columbia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 1993

   Ms. Norton (by request) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred jointly to the Committees on the District of Columbia and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 to authorize 
   construction, maintenance, and operation of a new stadium in the 
             District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Stadium Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF A NEW STADIUM.

    The District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 (Public Law 85-300, 
September 7, 1957; 71 Stat. 619) is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new section:
    ``Sec. 12. (a) The District of Columbia is hereby authorized to use 
the portion of the lands leased to it pursuant to section 7 adjacent to 
the stadium constructed pursuant to section 2 of the Act (known as 
`Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium'), as generally shown on the map 
identified as `Map to Designate Location of Stadiums and Lease of 
Parking Lots to the District', and further identified as National Park 
Service Drawing No. 831/87306, for the purposes of constructing, 
maintaining, and operating, itself or through a third party, either 
public or private, a new stadium, or any replacement thereof. Such use 
shall not be limited by the seating capacity, cost, and other 
limitations included in section 2.
    ``(b)(1) Except for those lands used by the District of Columbia 
for the new stadium authorized by subsection (a), use of the National 
Park Service lands leased to the District of Columbia for stadium and 
stadium parking lots purposes pursuant to section 7(b) shall continue 
in accord with the provisions of that section. The term of the 
authorized use is hereby extended for a period not to exceed 99 years 
from the date of enactment of this section. Nothing within section 
7(b), or the lease or deed executed pursuant thereto, shall be 
construed to limit the authority or ability of the District of Columbia 
to sublease or otherwise encumber the lands to a third party, either 
public or private, for any use consistent with the use authorized by 
section 7(b), and for any term not exceeding that which is authorized 
in this Act.
    ``(2) Responsibility and authority for construction, maintenance, 
and operation of the parking lots on National Park Service lands leased 
pursuant to this Act to the District of Columbia for parking lots 
purposes is vested exclusively in the District of Columbia. Such 
responsibility and authority for the parking lots may be assigned by 
the District of Columbia to a third party under any sublease executed 
pursuant to authority provided in subsection (a). The National Park 
Service shall not be responsible for construction, maintenance, or 
operation of the parking lots, or any costs arising therefrom.
    ``(c)(1) Except for that area of land used by the District of 
Columbia for the new stadium authorized by subsection (a), and that 
area of land bounded by the Armory Plaza bridge approaches of the 
Whitney Young Memorial Bridge, the lands designated as `Area F' on the 
map entitled `Map to Designate Transfer of Stadium and Lease of Parking 
Lots to the District', and identified as `NPS drawing number 831/
87306', referenced in section 11 (hereafter in this section referred to 
as the `Area F Parking Areas'), shall be made available to the District 
of Columbia, or any sublessee of the District of Columbia, for the 
stadium parking lots purposes specified in section 7(b), during the 
term of use of stadium parking lots authorized by subsection (b)(1), 
only for `overflow' parking, that is not to exceed 1,200 automobiles, 
and is to be used only when the stadium is sold out and all other 
stadium parking lot areas are filled to capacity.
    ``(2) Use of Area F Parking Areas shall be in accord with such 
reasonable terms and conditions specified in an agreement between the 
National Park Service and the District of Columbia as are necessary to 
ensure that the Area F Parking Areas are maintained as grassed park 
land suitable for public recreational uses.
    ``(3) The National Park Service shall not be responsible for 
improvement, maintenance, or operation of the Area F Parking Areas, or 
any costs arising therefrom.
    ``(d) Responsibility and authority for construction, maintenance, 
naming, and operation of the new stadium authorized by subsection (a) 
is vested exclusively in the District of Columbia. Such responsibility 
and authority for the new stadium may be assigned by the District of 
Columbia to a third party. The National Park Service shall not be 
responsible for construction, maintenance, naming, or operation of the 
new stadium, or any costs arising therefrom.
    ``(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of June 1, 1910 
(ch. 263, 36 Stat. 4562, codified in D.C. Code sections 5-401 through 
5-409 (1981) (An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the 
District of Columbia)), any stadium authorized by subsection (a), the 
design of which has been reviewed by the Commission of Fine Arts, and 
reviewed and approved by the National Capital Planning Commission may 
be constructed.''.

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