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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Old Post Office Build-
ing Redevelopment Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING DEFINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘Old Post Office Building’’ 
means the land, including any improvements thereon and 
specifically including the Pavilion Annex, that is located 
at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., in the District of Co-
lumbia, and under the jurisdiction, custody, and control 
of the General Services Administration. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) For almost a decade the Subcommittee on 
Economic Development, Public Buildings, and 
Emergency Management of the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives has expressed considerable concern 
about the waste and neglect of the valuable, historic 
Old Post Office Building, centrally located in the 
heart of the Nation’s Capital on Pennsylvania Ave-
nue, and has pressed the General Services Adminis-
tration to develop and fully use this building. 
(2) The policy of the Government long has been 
to preserve and make usable historic properties rath-
er than sell them for revenue. 
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(3) Security concerns related to this property’s 
proximity to the White House may hinder the sale 
of the Old Post Office Building to a private party. 
(4) On December 28, 2000, the General Serv-
ices Administration, pursuant to Public Law 105– 
277, submitted to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 
and the Committees on Appropriations and Environ-
ment and Public Works of the Senate a plan for the 
comprehensive redevelopment of the Old Post Office. 
(5) The Committee on Transportation and In-
frastructure approved the redevelopment plan on 
May 16, 2001, and the Committees on Appropria-
tions and Environment and Public Works approved 
the plan on June 15, 2001. 
(6) The General Services Administration issued 
a Request for Expression of Interest in 2004 for de-
veloping the Old Post Office Building that generated 
a healthy, private sector interest, but the General 
Services Administration has failed to proceed with 
implementation of the approved redevelopment plan. 
(7) Redevelopment of the Old Post Office 
Building will preserve the historic integrity of this 
unique and important asset, put it to its highest and 
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best use, and provide a lucrative financial return to 
the Government. 
SEC. 4. REDEVELOPMENT OF OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of General 
Services is directed to proceed with redevelopment of the 
Old Post Office Building, in accordance with existing au-
thorities available to the Administrator and consistent 
with the redevelopment plan previously approved by the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Committees on Appro-
priations and Environment and Public Works of the Sen-
ate. 
(b) RELOCATION
OF EXISTING BUILDING TEN-
ANTS.—The Administrator is authorized, notwithstanding 
section 3307 of title 40, United States Code, and other-
wise in accordance with existing authorities available to 
the Administrator, to provide replacement space for Fed-
eral agency tenants housed in the Old Post Office Building 
whose relocation is necessary for redevelopment of the 
Building. 
SEC. 5. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of General 
Services shall transmit to the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of 
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the Senate a report on any proposed redevelopment agree-
ment related to the Old Post Office Building. 
(b) CONTENTS.—A report transmitted under this sec-
tion shall include a summary of a cost-benefit analysis of 
the proposed development agreement and a description of 
the material provisions of the proposed agreement. 
(c) REVIEW BY CONGRESS.—Any proposed develop-
ment agreement related to the Old Post Office Building 
may not become effective until the end of a 30-day period 
of continuous session of Congress following the date of the 
transmittal of the report required under this section. For 
purposes of the preceding sentence, continuity of a session 
of Congress is broken only by an adjournment sine die, 
and there shall be excluded from the computation of such 
30-day period any day during which either House of Con-
gress is not in session during an adjournment of more 
than 3 days to a day certain. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 23, 2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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