An Act to repeal subsection (a) of section 8 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, limiting area In the District of Columbia within which sites for public buildings may be acquired.
PL 87-476 (S.3157), enacted 06/08/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-475-MAY 31, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
Public Law 87-475 
May 31, 1962 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 9699] 
rpQ authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to sell certain 
property owned by the District of Columbia located in Prince William County, 
Virginia, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatmes 
of the 
D. c. 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Commis-
saie of property, gioners of the Distrfct of Columbia are hereby authorized and em-
powered in their discretion, to sell and convey, in whole or in part, for 
its reasonable market value to Prince William County, Virginia, or 
to a nonprofit corporation designated by the board of supervisors of 
such county, real estate now owned in fee simple by the District of 
Columbia consisting of approximately four hundred and fifty-five 
acres of land located in Prince William County, Virginia, and de-
scribed in a deed conveying said land to the District of Columbia 
recorded on June 17, 1927, m liber 83, at folios 311 and 312, in the 
clerk's office of the circuit court of Prince William County, Common-
wealth of Virginia. 
SEC. 2. The said Commissioners are further authorized to pay the 
reasonable and necessary expenses of sale of each parcel of land sold 
pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Thej shall deposit the net 
proceeds of the sale in the Treasury of the United States to the credit 
of the District of Columbia. 
Approved May 31, 1962. 
Public Law 87-476 
June 8, 1962 
AN ACT 
[S- 3157] 
rp^j repeal subsection (a) T
)
f section 8 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, limiting 
the area in the District of Columbia within which sites for public buildings 
may be acquired. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the^ 
D. c. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) 
Public buildings of section 8 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 481, 40 
IT.S.C. 607 (a)) is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 2. Subsections (b) and (c) of section 8 of the Public Buildings 
Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 481; 40 U.S.C. 607 (b) and (c)) are hereby redes-
ignated as subsections (a) and (b), respectively, of such section. 
SEC, 3. Section 8 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 481; 
40 U.S.C. 607) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following 
new subsection: 
"(c) With respect to any lands located south of Independence 
Avenue, between Third Street SW. and Eleventh Street SE., in the 
District of Columbia, no such lands shall be acquired by the Adminis-
tratoir for use as sites, or additions to sites, without prior consultation 
with the House Office Building Commission created by the Act of 
40 use 175. 
March 4,1907 (34 Stat. 1365). 
"With respect to any lands located in the area extending from the 
United!States Capitol Grounds to Eleventh Street NE. and SE. and 
bounded by Independence Avenue on the south and G Street NE. on 
the north, in the District of Columbia, no such lands shall be acquired 
by the Administrator for use as sites, or additions to sites, without 
prior consultation with the Architect of the Capitol." 
Approved June 8, 1962.