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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2702
To amend the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 to authorize the
construction, maintenance, and operation of a new stadium in the District
of Columbia, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 21, 1993
Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly
to the Committees on the District of Columbia and Natural Resources
A BILL
To amend the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957
to authorize the construction, maintenance, and oper-
ation of a new stadium in the District of Columbia,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia
Stadium Act of 1957 Amendments of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF A NEW STADIUM.
The District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 (71
Stat. 619; D.C. Code sections 2–321 through 2–330) is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new
section:
‘‘SEC. 12. (a)(1) The District of Columbia is author-
ized to use, for a period not to exceed 99 years from the
date of enactment of the District of Columbia Stadium
Act of 1957 Amendments of 1993, a portion of the lands
adjacent to the stadium constructed pursuant to section
2 (known as ‘Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium’), as
generally shown on the map identified as ‘Map to Des-
ignate Location of Stadiums and Lease of Parking Lots
to the District’, and further identified as National Park
Service Drawing No. 831/87306, for the purposes of con-
structing, maintaining, and operating, itself or through a
third party, either public or private, a new stadium, or
any replacement of a new stadium.
‘‘(2) The use of the new stadium shall not be limited
by the seating capacity, cost, and other provisions in sec-
tion 2.
‘‘(3) Nothing in section 7(b), or any lease or deed
executed pursuant thereto, or in this section, shall be con-
strued to limit the authority or ability of the District of
Columbia to sublease or otherwise encumber the said por-
tion to a third party, either public or private, for—
‘‘(A) any use consistent with the use authorized
by this section; and
‘‘(B) any term not exceeding that which is au-
thorized in this section.
‘‘(b)(1)(A) Except for those lands used by the Dis-
trict of Columbia for the new stadium authorized by sub-
section (a), the use of the lands leased to the District of
Columbia for stadium and stadium parking lots purposes
pursuant to section 7(b) shall continue in accord with the
provisions of that section subject to the provisions of sub-
paragraphs (B) and (C).
‘‘(B) The term of the authorized use of the lands
leased to the District of Columbia for stadium and sta-
dium parking lots is extended for a period not to exceed
99 years from the date of enactment of the District of
Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 Amendments of 1993.
‘‘(C) Nothing in section 7(b), or any lease or deed
executed pursuant thereto, or in this section, shall be con-
strued to limit the authority or ability of the District of
Columbia to sublease or otherwise encumber the lands to
a third party, either public or private, for—
‘‘(i) any use consistent with the use authorized
by section 7(b) and this section; and
‘‘(ii) any term not exceeding that which is au-
thorized in this section.
‘‘(2) The responsibility and authority for construc-
tion, maintenance, and operation of the parking lots on
the lands leased to the District of Columbia for parking
lots purposes is vested exclusively in the District of Colum-
bia. Such responsibility and authority for the parking lots
may be assigned by the District of Columbia to a third
party under any sublease executed pursuant to the author-
ity provided in this section. The National Park Service
shall not be responsible for construction, maintenance, or
operation of the parking lots, or any cost arising there-
from.
‘‘(c)(1)(A) Except for the lands described in subpara-
graph (B), the land designated as ‘Area F’ on the map
entitled ‘Map to Designate Location of Stadiums and
Lease of Parking Lots to the District’, and further identi-
fied as National Park Service Drawing No 831/87306
(hereinafter referred to as ‘Area F’), are leased to the Dis-
trict of Columbia. Such lands may be used by the District
of Columbia, or any sublessee of the District of Columbia,
for the stadium parking lots purposes specified in section
7(b), during the term of use of stadium parking lots au-
thorized by subsection (b)(1) of this section, only for ‘over-
flow’ parking, that is not to exceed 2,000 automobiles, and
only when all other stadium striped parking spaces are
filled to capacity.
‘‘(B) The area described in subparagraph (A) ex-
cludes that area of land used by the District of Columbia
for the new stadium authorized by subsection (a) of this
section.
‘‘(2) The use of Area F shall be in accord with the
terms and conditions specified in an agreement between
the National Park Service and the District of Columbia.
The terms and conditions specified in such agreement
shall be reasonable and necessary to ensure that Area F
is maintained as grassed park land suitable for public rec-
reational uses.
‘‘(3) The National Park Service shall not be respon-
sible for improvement, maintenance, or operation of Area
F, or any costs arising therefrom.
‘‘(d) The responsibility and authority for construc-
tion, maintenance, naming, and operation of the new sta-
dium authorized by subsection (a) of this section is vested
exclusively in the District of Columbia. Such responsibility
and authority for the new stadium may be assigned by
the District of Columbia to a third party, either public
or private. The National Park Service shall not be respon-
sible for construction, maintenance, naming, or operation
of the new stadium, or any costs arising therefrom.
‘‘(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act enti-
tled ‘An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the Dis-
trict of Columbia’, approved June 1, 1910 (36 Stat. 452;
D.C. Code 5–401 through 5–409), as stadium authorized
by subsection (a) may be constructed if—
‘‘(1) the design has been reviewed by the Com-
mission of Fine Arts; and
‘‘(2) reviewed and approved by the National
Capital Planning Commission.’’.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF CERTAIN DESIGNA-
TIONS.
The District of Columbia is prohibited from allowing
the stadium constructed pursuant to section 2 to be used
by any person or organization exploiting any racial or eth-
nic group or using nomenclature that includes a reference
to real or alleged physical characteristics of Native Ameri-
cans or other group of human beings.
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