An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on behalf of the United States to transfer from the United States to the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency title to certain real property in said District.
PL 86-736 (S.3648), enacted 09/08/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-736-SEPT. 8, 1960 
871 
Public Law 86-736 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on behalf of the 
United States to transfer from the United States to the District of Columbia 
Redevelopment Land Agency title to certain real property in said District. 
Be it eThocted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseTnhled, That subject to the 
provisions of this Act the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
are authorized on behalf of the United States to transfer to the 
District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency established by 
section 4 of the Act approved August 4, 1946 (60 Stat. 793), as 
amended (sec. 5-703, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to part or all of certain property 
in the said District, as follows: 
The area bounded by the east line 
of Fourteenth Street Southwest, the existing southerly (or westerly) 
building line of Maine Avenue Southwest, the northerly line of Fort 
Lesley J. McNair at P Street Southwest, and the bulkhead line estab-
lished pursuant to the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (30 Stat. 1151), 
as amended, together with any land area extending channelward from 
said bulkhead line. 
SEC. 2. The said Commissioners shall, prior to transferring to the 
Agency right, title, and interest in and to any of the said property 
described in the preceding section, determine whether such property is 
necessary to the redevelopment of the southwest section of the District 
of Columbia in accordance w^ith an urban renewal plan approved by 
them, and, if they so find, they shall, acting on behalf of the United 
States, transfer and donate to the Agency all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to so much of said property as they deter-
mine is necessary to carry out such urban renewal plan. 
SEC. 3. Subject to the provisions of section 5 of this Act, the Com-
missioners shall, at the time of transferring to the Agency right, title, 
and interest in and to any of the property described in the first section 
hereof, also transfer to the Agency their jurisdiction as provided by 
the first section of the Act approved March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1377, 
chapter 458; sec. 9-101, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), over so much of 
the said property as may be so transferred. 
SEC. 4. (a) The Agency is hereby authorized, in accordance with 
the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, to lease to a 
redevelopment company or other lessee such real property as may be 
transferred to the Agency under the authority of this Act but may 
not otherwise dispose of such property except to the United States 
or any department or agency thereof, or to the District of Columbia, 
in accordance with section 5 of this Act. In the event that real prop-
erty acquired by the Agency from the United States pursuant to this 
Act is transferred to the District of Columbia or to any department 
or agency of the United States pursuant to this section, such transfer 
shall be without reimbursement or transfer of funds. 
(b) In connection with the leasing of the real property transferred 
to the Agency under the authority of this Act, together with the 
leasing of any real property lying between such real property so 
transferred and the southerly or westerly line of Maine Avenue as 
the same may be relocated in connection with carrying out an urban 
renewal plan, the Agency is authorized and directed to provide to 
the owner or owners of any business concern displaced by reason of 
September 8, 1960 
[S. 3648] 
D. C. Redevelop-
ment Land Agency. 
Transfer of prop-
erty. 
33 u s e 403. 
Transfer of juris-
diction. 
Leasing of prop-
erty. 
60 Stat. 790. 
D.C. Code 5-701 
note. 
Exception. 
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Priority to lease. 
60 Stat. 797; 72 
Stat. 1103. 
No t i f ication to 
owners. 
Reversion provi-
sion. 
68 Stat. 620. 
42 u s e 
1450 et 
47 Stat. 162. 
Transfer of title 
for municipal pur-
poses. 
Restriction. 
Grant-in-aid re-
striction. 
68 Stat. 620. 
42 u s e 
1450 et 
seq. 
60 Stat. 791. 
the enactment of the joint resolution approved August 28, 1958 (72 
Stat. 983; Public Law 85-821), from the area described in the first 
section of this Act, a priority of opportunity to lease, either individ-
ually or as a redevelopment company solely owned by the owner or 
owners of one or more such business concerns, so much of such real 
property lying channelward of the southerly or westerly line of Maine 
Avenue as so relocated, at a rental based on the use-value of the real 
property so leased determined in accordance with the provisions of 
section 10 of the District of Columbia Eedevelopment Act of 1945, 
as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 5-709), and section 110(c)(4) of the 
Housing Act of 1949, as amended (70 Stat. 1098; 42 U.S.C. 
1460(c) (4)), as may be required for the construction of commercial 
facilities at least substantially equal to the facilities from which such 
business concern was so displaced. When the real property affected 
by the provisions of this subsection becomes available for leasing by 
the Agency, the Agency shall notify, in writing, the owners of the 
business concerns displaced by reason of the operation of such joint 
resolution approved August 28, 1958, as to the availability of such 
real property for leasing to such owners in accordance with the pro-
visions of this subsection. 
The Agency shall give such owners so 
notified a period of one hundred and eighty days to notify the Agency, 
in writing, of their intention to proceed in accordance with the gen-
eral development plan of the Agency for the area lying channelward 
of Maine Avenue, as so relocated, and to demonstrate to the Agency 
their ability to carry out so much of such plan as may be embraced 
within the area which they desire to lease. If at the end of such 
period of one hundred and eighty days, such owners have failed to 
make a demonstration to that effect which is satisfactory to the 
Agency, the priority of opportunity provided by this subsection shall 
no longer continue to be available to such owners. 
SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Act, if any 
of the real property transferred to the Agency under the authority of 
this Act is not leased by the Agency in accordance with an urban 
renewal plan approved by the Commissioners, or otherwise disposed 
of, on or before the date the Housing and Home Finance Adminis-
trator makes the final Federal capital grant payment to the Agency 
for the project pursuant to title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as 
amended, then the ri^ht, title, and interest in and to so much of the 
said real property as is not so leased or otherwise disposed of by such 
date shall revert to the United States, subject to the exclusive control 
and jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and 
subject to the provisions of the Act approved May 20, 1932 (47 Stat. 
161; sees. 8-115 and 8-116, D.C. Code, 1951 edition). 
SEC. 6. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring the 
said Commissioners to transfer the right, title, and interest in and to so 
much of the property described in the first section of this Act as the 
Commissioners may determine, in their discretion, is required for 
municipal purposes or is to continue to be owned by the United States 
under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners, for the benefit of the 
District of Columbia. 
SEC. 7. No transfer or donation of any interest in real projjerty 
under the authority of this Act shall constitute a local grant-in-aid in 
connection with any urban renewal project being undertaken with 
Federal assistance under title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended. 
SEC. 8. As used in this Act, the terms "Agency", "lessee", "real 
property", "redevelopment", and "redevelopment companj^" shall have 
the respective meanings provided for such terms by section 3 of the 
District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, as amended (D.C. 
Code, sec. 5-702). 
Approved September 8, 1960.