40 U.S.C. § 3306 — Accommodating federal agencies
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-217 to r/title-40-PUBLIC-BUILDINGS-PROPERTY-AND-WORKS · 451 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator must consider suitable historic, architectural, or culturally significant buildings and encourage commercial, cultural, educational, and recreational uses in public buildings. The Administrator must also consult State and local officials and seek appropriate community and public comments.
(a) Definitions. In this section: (1) commercial activities include restaurants, food, craft, and dry-goods stores, financial institutions, and display facilities; (2) cultural activities include film, dramatic, dance, and musical presentations and fine-art exhibits, whether or not intended to make money; (3) educational activities include libraries, schools, day-care centers, laboratories, and lecture or demonstration facilities; (4) historical, architectural, or cultural significance includes buildings listed or eligible for the National Register under title 54 chapter 3021; (5) recreational activities include gymnasiums and related facilities; and (6) unit of general local government means a city, county, town, parish, village, or other general-purpose State political subdivision.
(b) Administrator's duties. In carrying out the listed duties and other authority involving space for Federal agencies, the Administrator must (1) acquire and use space in suitable significant buildings unless that is not feasible and prudent compared with available alternatives; (2) encourage commercial, cultural, educational, and recreational facilities and activities in public buildings; (3) as practicable, provide and maintain space, facilities, and activities encouraging public access and pedestrian traffic around, into, and through public buildings, allowing cooperative improvements and uses between the building and street so activities complement neighborhood resources; and (4) encourage public use of public buildings for cultural, educational, and recreational activities.
(c) Consultation and comments. In carrying out (b), the Administrator must (1) consult State chief executives, specified areawide agencies, and chief executives of local-government units in each area served by an existing or proposed public building*; and (2) seek comments from other community leaders and the public as the Administrator considers appropriate.
In this section—
The term “commercial activities” includes the operations of restaurants, food stores, craft stores, dry goods stores, financial institutions, and display facilities.
The term “cultural activities” includes film, dramatic, dance, and musical presentations, and fine art exhibits, whether or not those activities are intended to make a profit.
The terms “educational activities” includes the operations of libraries, schools, day care centers, laboratories, and lecture and demonstration facilities.
The term “historical, architectural, or cultural significance” includes buildings listed or eligible to be listed on the National Register established under chapter 3021 of title 54.
The term “recreational activities” includes the operations of gymnasiums and related facilities.
The term “unit of general local government” means a city, county, town, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of a State.
To carry out the duties of the Administrator of General Services under sections 581(h), 584(b), 3303(c), and 3307(b)(3) and (5) of this title and under any other authority with respect to constructing, operating, maintaining, altering, and otherwise managing or acquiring space necessary to accommodate federal agencies and to accomplish the purposes of sections 581(h), 584(b), 3303(c), and 3307(b)(3) and (5), the Administrator shall—
acquire and utilize space in suitable buildings of historical, architectural, or cultural significance, unless use of the space would not prove feasible and prudent compared with available alternatives;
encourage the location of commercial, cultural, educational, and recreational facilities and activities in public buildings;
provide and maintain space, facilities, and activities, to the extent practicable, that encourage public access to, and stimulate public pedestrian traffic around, into, and through, public buildings, permitting cooperative improvements to and uses of the area between the building and the street, so that the activities complement and supplement commercial, cultural, educational, and recreational resources in the neighborhood of public buildings; and
encourage the public use of public buildings for cultural, educational, and recreational activities.
In carrying out the duties under subsection (b), the Administrator shall—
consult with chief executive officers of the States, areawide agencies established pursuant to title II of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 3331 et seq.) and section 6506 of title 31, and chief executive officers of those units of general local government in each area served by an existing or proposed public building*; and
solicit the comments of other community leaders and members of the general public as the Administrator considers appropriate.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1160; Pub. L. 113–287, § 5(j)(6), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3269.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-217 · 116 Stat. 1160
- 2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-287 · 128 Stat. 3269
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