21 U.S.C. § 379b — Consolidated administrative and laboratory facility
submitted 88 years ago by Pub. L. 101-635 to r/title-21-FOOD-AND-DRUGS · 225 words · no verdicts yet
This law tells the Secretary to build one combined FDA office and lab building. The Secretary must get contract bids and pick the most cost-effective option. Congress authorized $100,000,000 for 1991, plus more money in later years as needed.
This section directs the government to build a single, combined FDA administrative and laboratory building.
(a) Authority. The Secretary*, working with the Administrator* of the General Services Administration, must enter into contracts for designing, building, and running a consolidated Food* and Drug* Administration administrative and laboratory facility.
(b) Awarding of contract. The Secretary must ask interested parties to submit contract proposals. When choosing among them, the Secretary must give priority to the options that cost the federal government the least, and that allow the use of donated land, federally owned property, or lease-purchase arrangements. The Secretary cannot enter into this contract unless it will save the federal government money overall, compared to the government simply purchasing the facility outright, including any borrowing by the Secretary of the Treasury.
(c) Donations. In carrying out this section, the Secretary can accept, on the FDA's behalf, gifts or donations of services or of real or personal property connected to real property, buildings, and facilities, whenever the Secretary decides this is necessary.
(d) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $100,000,000 for this purpose for fiscal year 1991, and whatever additional sums are necessary for each following fiscal year. This money stays available until it is spent.
The Secretary*, in consultation with the Administrator* of the General Services Administration, shall enter into contracts for the design, construction, and operation of a consolidated Food* and Drug* Administration administrative and laboratory facility.
The Secretary shall solicit contract proposals under subsection (a) from interested parties. In awarding contracts under such subsection, the Secretary shall review such proposals and give priority to those alternatives that are the most cost effective for the Federal Government and that allow for the use of donated land, federally owned property, or lease-purchase arrangements. A contract under this subsection shall not be entered into unless such contract results in a net cost savings to the Federal Government over the duration of the contract, as compared to the Government purchase price including borrowing by the Secretary of the Treasury.
In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall have the power, in connection with real property, buildings, and facilities, to accept on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration gifts or donations of services or property, real or personal, as the Secretary determines to be necessary.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1991, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the subsequent fiscal years, to remain available until expended.
Source credit: (June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 710, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title I, § 101, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4583.)
- 1938Enacted · Pub. L. 101-635 · 104 Stat. 4583
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