103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 490
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improve-
ments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Co-
lumbia 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF LAND.
(a) ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES.—Sub-
ject to sections 2 and 4, the Administrator of General
Services (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Ad-
ministrator’’) 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 Co-
lumbia Hospital for Women (formerly Columbia Hospital
for Women and Lying-in Asylum; hereinafter in this Act
referred to as ‘‘Columbia Hospital’’), located in Washing-
ton, 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 Cen-
ter’’), as described in the Certificate of Need issued for
the Resource Center in conformance with District of Co-
lumbia 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
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portion of square numbered 25 in the city of Washington
in the District of Columbia which was not previously con-
veyed to such hospital by the Act of June 28, 1952 (Public
Law 82–423). Such property is more particularly de-
scribed as square 25, lot 803, or as follows: all that piece
or parcel of land situated and lying in the city of Washing-
ton 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 cor-
ner 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 run-
ning 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
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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 NOTIFICA-
TION.—A written notification of need from Columbia
Hospital shall not be effective for purposes of sub-
section (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 con-
ditions shall be consistent with the terms and condi-
tions set forth in this Act.
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(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 Prop-
erty 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, Colum-
bia Hospital, after consultation with the District of
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Columbia Commission of Public Health and the Dis-
trict of Columbia State Health Planning and Devel-
opment Agency, shall establish, maintain, and oper-
ate 3 satellite health centers.
(2) PERSONS TO BE SERVED.—One of the sat-
ellite 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 teen-
age 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 com-
prehensive health and counseling services provided
by the centers is the greatest. In locating such cen-
ters, 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;
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(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 sec-
tion 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 oper-
ating 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 prop-
erty is used for a purpose other than that referred
to in section 2.
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(b) REPAYMENT.—If property reverts to the United
States under subsection (a), the Administrator shall pay
to Columbia Hospital, from amounts otherwise appro-
priated 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 sec-
tion—
(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
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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 ad-
justed 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 recover-
able under this section for that failure, if the Admin-
istrator—
(A) determines the failure is caused by ex-
ceptional circumstances; and
(B) submits a statement to the District of
Columbia Commission of Public Health and the
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Congress, that sets forth the reasons for the de-
termination.
(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 Hos-
pital; and
(2) require the Administrator to provide to Co-
lumbia Hospital notice and an opportunity to re-
spond 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 com-
mittees 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 es-
tablishment of formal linkages with no less than 6
universities or health centers throughout the Nation,
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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 ac-
tivities of the Resource Center.
Passed the House of Representatives March 9,
1993.
Attest:
Clerk.