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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 490 Reported in Senate (RS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 184

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 490

                          [Report No. 103-125]

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                                 AN ACT

  To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in 
Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to 
provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National 
                    Women's Health Resource Center.

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               August 6 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

                       Reported without amendment

                                                       Calendar No. 184
103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 490

                          [Report No. 103-125]

  To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in 
Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to 
provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National 
                    Women's Health Resource Center.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

               August 6 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

                Reported by Mr. Glenn, without amendment

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                                 AN ACT

 
  To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in 
Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to 
provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National 
                    Women's Health Resource Center.

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

SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF LAND.

    (a) Administrator of General Services.--Subject to sections 2 and 
4, the Administrator of General Services (hereinafter in this Act 
referred to as the ``Administrator'') shall convey, for $12,800,000 to 
be paid in accordance with the terms set forth in subsection (d)(2) and 
other consideration required by this Act, to the Columbia Hospital for 
Women (formerly Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum; 
hereinafter in this Act referred to as ``Columbia Hospital''), located 
in Washington, District of Columbia, all right, title, and interest of 
the United States in and to those pieces or parcels of land in the 
District of Columbia, described in subsection (b), together with all 
improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto. The purpose of the 
conveyance is to provide a site for the construction by Columbia 
Hospital of a facility to house the National Women's Health Resource 
Center (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ``Resource 
Center''), as described in the Certificate of Need issued for the 
Resource Center in conformance with District of Columbia law and in 
effect on the date of conveyance.
    (b) Property Description.--The land referred to in subsection (a) 
was conveyed to the United States of America by deed dated May 2, 1888, 
from David Fergusson, widower, recorded in liber 1314, folio 102, of 
the land records of the District of Columbia, and is that portion of 
square numbered 25 in the city of Washington in the District of 
Columbia which was not previously conveyed to such hospital by the Act 
of June 28, 1952 (Public Law 82-423). Such property is more 
particularly described as square 25, lot 803, or as follows: all that 
piece or parcel of land situated and lying in the city of Washington in 
the District of Columbia and known as part of square numbered 25, as 
laid down and distinguished on the plat or plan of said city as 
follows: beginning for the same at the northeast corner of the square 
being the corner formed by the intersection of the west line of Twenty-
fourth Street Northwest, with the south line of north M Street 
Northwest and running thence south with the line of said Twenty-fourth 
Street Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty-one feet 
ten inches, thence running west and parallel with said M Street 
Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty feet six inches 
and running thence north and parallel with the line of said Twenty-
fourth Street Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty-one 
feet ten inches to the line of said M Street Northwest and running 
thence east with the line of said M Street Northwest to the place of 
beginning two hundred and thirty feet and six inches together with all 
the improvements, ways, easements, rights, privileges, and 
appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining.
    (c) Date of Conveyance.--
            (1) Date.--The date of the conveyance of property required 
        under subsection (a) shall be the date which is 1 year after 
        the date of receipt by the Administrator of written 
        notification from Columbia Hospital that the hospital needs 
        such property for use as a site to provide housing for the 
        Resource Center.
            (2) Deadline for submission of notification.--A written 
        notification of need from Columbia Hospital shall not be 
        effective for purposes of subsection (a) and paragraph (1) 
        unless the notification is received by the Administrator before 
        the date which is 1 year after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act.
    (d) Conveyance Terms.--
            (1) In general.--The conveyance of property required under 
        subsection (a) shall be subject to such terms and conditions as 
        may be determined by the Administrator to be necessary to 
        safeguard the interests of the United States. Such terms and 
        conditions shall be consistent with the terms and conditions 
        set forth in this Act.
            (2) Payment of purchase price.--Columbia Hospital shall pay 
        the $12,800,000 purchase price in full by not later than the 
        date of conveyance under subsection (c).
            (3) Quitclaim deed.--Any conveyance of property to Columbia 
        Hospital under this Act shall be by quitclaim deed.
    (e) Treatment of Amounts Received.--Amounts received by the United 
States as payment under this Act shall be paid into, administered, and 
expended as part of the fund established by section 210(f) of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 
490(f)).

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CONVEYANCE.

    No part of any land conveyed under section 1 may be used, during 
the 30-year period beginning on the date of conveyance under section 
1(c)(1), for any purpose other than to provide a site for a facility to 
house the Resource Center and any necessary related appurtenances to 
that facility.

SEC. 3. SATELLITE HEALTH CENTERS.

    (a) Requirement.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 4 years after the date of 
        the conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital, after 
        consultation with the District of Columbia Commission of Public 
        Health and the District of Columbia State Health Planning and 
        Development Agency, shall establish, maintain, and operate 3 
        satellite health centers.
            (2) Persons to be served.--One of the satellite health 
        centers shall provide comprehensive health and counseling 
        services exclusively for teenage women and their children. The 
        other 2 satellite health centers shall provide comprehensive 
        health and counseling services for women (including teenage 
        women) and their children.
            (3) Location.--The satellite health centers shall be 
        located in areas of the District of Columbia in which the 
        District of Columbia Department of Public Health has determined 
        that the need for comprehensive health and counseling services 
        provided by the centers is the greatest. In locating such 
        centers, special consideration shall be given to the areas of 
        the District with the highest rates of infant death and births 
        by teenagers.
    (b) Comprehensive Health and Counseling Services.--In subsection 
(a), comprehensive health and counseling services include--
            (1) examination of women;
            (2) medical treatment and counseling of women, including 
        prenatal and postnatal services;
            (3) treatment and counseling of substance abusers and those 
        who are at risk of substance abuse;
            (4) health promotion and disease prevention services;
            (5) physician and hospital referral services; and
            (6) extended and flexible hours of service.
    (c) Required Consideration.--The establishment, operation, and 
maintenance of satellite health centers by Columbia Hospital in 
accordance with this section shall be part of the consideration 
required by this Act for the conveyance under section 1.

SEC. 4. REVERSIONARY INTEREST.

    (a) In General.--The property conveyed under section 1 shall revert 
to the United States--
            (1) on the date which is 4 years after the date of such 
        conveyance if Columbia Hospital is not operating the Resource 
        Center on such property; and
            (2) on any date in the 30-year period beginning on the date 
        of such conveyance, on which the property is used for a purpose 
        other than that referred to in section 2.
    (b) Repayment.--If property reverts to the United States under 
subsection (a), the Administrator shall pay to Columbia Hospital, from 
amounts otherwise appropriated from the fund established by section 
210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 
(40 U.S.C. 490(f)), an amount equal to all sums received by the United 
States as payments for the conveyance under section 1, without interest 
on such amount.
    (c) Enforcing Reversion.--The Administrator shall perform all acts 
necessary to enforce any reversion of property to the United States 
under this section.
    (d) Inventory of Public Buildings Service.--Property that reverts 
to the United States under this section--
            (1) shall be under the control of the General Services 
        Administration; and
            (2) shall be assigned by the Administrator to the inventory 
        of the Public Buildings Service.

SEC. 5. DAMAGES.

    (a) Damages.--Subject to subsection (b), for each year in the 26-
year period beginning on the date which is 4 years after the date of 
conveyance under section 1(c)(1), in which Columbia Hospital does not 
operate 3 satellite health centers in accordance with section 3 for a 
period of more than 60 days, the Columbia Hospital shall be liable to 
the United States for damages in an amount equal to $200,000, except 
that this subsection shall not apply after the date of any reversion of 
property under section 4.
    (b) Limitation in Damages.--The maximum amount of damages for which 
Columbia Hospital may be liable under this section shall be $3,000,000.
    (c) Adjustments for Inflation.--The amount of damages specified in 
subsection (a) and the maximum amount of damages specified in 
subsection (b) shall be adjusted biennially to reflect changes in the 
consumer price index that have occurred since the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
    (d) Assessment and Waiver.--For any failure by Columbia Hospital to 
operate a satellite health center in accordance with section 3, the 
Administrator may--
            (1) seek to recover damages under this section; or
            (2) waive all or any part of damages recoverable under this 
        section for that failure, if the Administrator--
                    (A) determines the failure is caused by exceptional 
                circumstances; and
                    (B) submits a statement to the District of Columbia 
                Commission of Public Health and the Congress, that sets 
                forth the reasons for the determination.
    (e) Conveyance Documents.--The Administrator shall include in the 
documents for any conveyance under this Act appropriate provisions to--
            (1) ensure that payment of damages under this section is a 
        contractual obligation of Columbia Hospital; and
            (2) require the Administrator to provide to Columbia 
        Hospital notice and an opportunity to respond before the 
        Administrator seeks to recover such damages.

SEC. 6. REPORTS.

    During the 5-year period beginning one year after the date of the 
conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital shall submit to the 
Administrator, the appropriate committees of the Congress, and the 
Comptroller General of the United States annual reports on the 
establishment, maintenance, and operation of the Resource Center and 
the satellite health centers.

SEC. 7. MEMBER INSTITUTES.

    The Resource Center should--
            (1) include among its outreach activities the establishment 
        of formal linkages with no less than 6 universities or health 
        centers throughout the Nation, to be known as ``member 
        institutes'' in furtherance of the purposes of the Resource 
        Center; and
            (2) provide national notice of the opportunity such 
        entities have to participate in programs and activities of the 
        Resource Center.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 9, 1993.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.
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