AN ACTTo amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, to provide for financing the acquisition, construction, alteration, maintenance, operation, and protection of public buildings, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

[Sections 1-4 were repealed by section 6 of P.L. 107–217 (116 Stat. 1062).] * * * * * * *

Sec. 5. [40 U.S.C. 602a] (a) Whenever the Administrator of General Services determines that the best interests of the United States will be served by taking action hereunder, he is authorized to provide space by entering into purchase contracts, the terms of which shall not be more than thirty years and which shall provide in each case that title to the property shall vest in the United States at or before the expiration of the contract term and upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions stipulated in each of such purchase contracts. Such terms and conditions shall include provision for the application to the purchase price agreed upon therein of installment payments made thereunder. Each purchase contract authorized by this section shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions of title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. If any such contract is negotiated, the determination and findings supporting such negotiation shall be promptly reported in writing to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives. Proposals for purchase contracts shall be solicited from the maximum number of qualified sources consistent with the nature and requirements of the facility to be procured. (b) Each such purchase contract shall include such provisions as the Administrator of General Services, in his discretion, shall deem to be in the best interests of the United States and appropriate to secure the performance of the obligations imposed upon the party or parties that shall enter into such agreement with the United States. No such purchase contract shall provide for any payments to be made by the United States in excess of the amount necessary, as determined by the Administrator, to— (1) amortize the cost of construction of improvements to be constructed plus the fair market value, on the date of the agreement, of the site, if not owned by the United States; and (2) provide a reasonable rate of interest on the outstanding principal as determined under paragraph (1) above; and (3) reimburse the contractor for the cost of any other obligations required of him under the contract, including (but not limited to) payment of taxes, costs of carrying appropriate insurance, and costs of repair and maintenance if so required of the contractor. (c) Funds available on the date of enactment of this subsection for the payment of rent and related charges for premises, whether appropriated directly to the General Services Administration or to any other agency of the Government and received by said Administration for such purpose, may be utilized by the Administrator of General Services to make payments becoming due from time to time from the United States as current charges in connection with agreements entered into under authority of this section. (d) With respect to any interest in real property acquired under the provisions of this section, the same shall be subject to State and local taxes until title to the same shall pass to the Government of the United States. (e) For the purpose of purchase contracts provided for in this section for the erection by the contractor of buildings and improvements for the use of the United States, the Administrator is authorized to enter into agreements with any person, copartnership, corporation, or other public or private entity, to effectuate any of the purposes of this section; and is further authorized to bring about the development and improvement of any land owned by the United States and under the control of the General Services Administration including the demolition of obsolete and outmoded structures situated thereon, by providing for the construction thereon by others of such structures and facilities as shall be the subject of the applicable purchase contracts, and by making available such plans and specifications for the construction of a public building thereon as the Government may posses. Projects heretofore approved pursuant to the provisions of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended (40 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), may be constructed under authority of this section without further approval, and the prospectuses submitted to obtain such approval shall for all purposes, be considered as prospectuses for the purchase of space, except that any such project shall be subject to the requirements of section 7(b) of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, based upon an estimated maximum cost increased by not more than an average of 10 per centum per year, exclusive of financing or other costs attributable to the use of the method of construction authorized by this section. (f) Except for previously approved prospectuses referred to in (e) above, no purchase contract shall be entered into pursuant to the authority of this section until a prospectus therefor has been submitted and approved in accordance with section 7 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended. (g) No purchase contract shall be entered into under the authority granted under this section after the end of the third fiscal year which begins after the date of enactment of this section. (h) No space shall be provided pursuant to this section until after the expiration of 30 days from the date upon which the Administrator of General Services notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives of his determination that the best interests of the Federal Government will be served by providing such space by entering into a purchase contract therefor.

Sec. 6. (a) The Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service shall convey to the city of Carbondale, Illinois, all right, title, and interest of the United States and such Postal Service, in and to the real property (including any improvements thereon) in Carbondale, Illinois, bounded by old West Main Street on the south, Glenview Drive on the west, Illinois Route 13 and access road to Murdale Shopping Center on the north, and by Texaco Service Station and residences on the north, approximately 308 feet on the east, 525 feet on the south, 420 feet on the west and with an irregular boundary on the north, a total area of approximately 191,000 square feet. The exact legal description of the property shall be determined by the Postmaster General, without cost to the city of Carbondale, Illinois. Such conveyance shall be made without payment of monetary consideration and on condition that such property shall be used solely for public park purposes, and if it ever ceases to be used for such purpose, the title thereto shall revert to the United States which shall have the right of immediate reentry thereon. (b)(1) The United States Postal Service shall grant to the City of New York, without reimbursement, air rights for public housing purposes above the postal facility to be constructed on the real property bounded by Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets, Ninth and Tenth Avenues, in the City of New York (the Morgan Annex site), such facility to be designed and constructed in such manner as to permit the building by the City of New York of a high-rise residential tower thereon, Provided, That— (A) the City of New York shall grant to the Postal Service without reimbursement exclusive use of Twenty-ninth Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the City of New York, such use to be irrevocable unless the Postal Service sells, leases, or otherwise disposes of the Morgan Annex site; and (B) the City of New York shall agree to reimburse the Postal Service for the additional cost of designing and constructing the foundations of its facility so as to render them capable of supporting a residential tower above the facility, and shall issue any permits, licenses, easements and other authorizations which may be necessary or incident to the construction of the postal facility. (2) If within twenty-four months after the City of New York has complied with the provisions of paragraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (d)(1) of this section, the United States Postal Service has not awarded a contract for the construction of its facility, the Postal Service shall convey to the City of New York, at the fair market value, all right, title and interest in and to the above-described real property. Such conveyance shall be made on the condition that such property shall be used solely for public housing purposes, and if public housing is not constructed on the property with five years after title is conveyed to the City of New York or if thereafter the property ever ceases to be used for such purposes, title thereto shall revert to the Postal Service, which shall have the right of immediate reentry thereon.

Sec. 7. [40 U.S.C. 603 note] [Section 7 was repealed by section 6 of P.L. 107–217 (116 Stat. 1062).]

Sec. 8. [40 U.S.C. 175 note] (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the House Office Building Commission is authorized (1) to use, to such extent as it may deem necessary, for the purpose of providing office and other accommodations for the House of Representatives, the building, known as the Congressional Hotel, acquired by the Government in 1957 as part of Lot 20 in Square 692 in the District of Columbia under authority of the Additional House Office Building Act of 1955 and (2) to direct the Architect of the Capitol to lease, at fair market value, for such other use and under such terms and conditions and to such parties as such Commission may authorize, any space in such building not required for the aforesaid purpose. (b) Any space in such building used for office and other accommodations for the House of Representatives shall be deemed to be a part of the “House Office Buildings” and, as such, shall be subject to the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to those buildings. * * * * * * *

Sec. 11. [40 U.S.C. 603 note] [Section 11 was repealed by section 6 of P.L. 107–217 (116 Stat. 1062).]