To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National Women's Health Resource Center.
PL 103-67 (H.R.490), enacted 08/11/1993

107 STAT. 686 
PUBLIC LAW 103-67—AUG. 11, 1993 
Public Law 103-67 
103d Congress 
An Act 
To provide for the conveyance of certain landa and improvements in Washington, 
Aug. 11, 1993 
District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to provide a site 
[H.R. 490] 
for the construction of a facility to house the National Women's Health Resource 
Center. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF LAND. 
(a) ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES,—Subject to sections 
2 and 4, the Administrator of Greneral Services (hereinafter in 
this Act referred to as the "Administrator") shall convey, for 
$12,800,000 to be paid in accordance with the terms set forth 
in subsection (dX2) and other consideration required by this Act, 
to the Columbia Hospital for Women (formerly Columbia Hospital 
for Women and Lying-in Asylum; hereinafter in this Act referred 
to as "Colimibia Hospital"), located in Washington, District of 
Coliimbia, 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 Center"), as described 
in the Certificate of Need issued for the Resource Center in conform-
ance with District of Columbia 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 portion of square numbered 25 in the city of Washington 
in the District of Coliunbia which was not previously conveyed 
to such hospital by the Act of June 28, 1952 (PubUc Law 82-
423). Such property is more particularly described as square 25, 
lot 803, or as follows: all that piece or parcel of land situated 
and lying in the city of Washington 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 comer of the sauare being the comer 
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 running west and parallel with said M Street 
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Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirtv feet six 
inches and running thence north and parallel with the line of 
said Twenty-fourth Street Northwest for the distance of two hun-
dred 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 appurtenances to the same belonging or 
in an3rwise 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 NOTIFICATION.—A written 
notification of need from Colimibia Hospital shall not be effec-
tive for purposes of subsection (a) and paragraph (1) unless 
the notincation 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 condi-
tions as may be determined by the Administrator to be nec-
essary to safeguard the interests of the United States. Such 
terms and conditions shall be consistent with the terms and 
conditions set forth in this Act. 
(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.—Anv conveyance of property to 
Columbia Hospital under this Act shall be by quitclaim deed. 
(e) TREATMENT OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED.—Amoimts received by 
the United States as pajrment under this Act shall be paid into, 
administered, and expended as part of the fund established by 
section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 490(f)). 
SEC. 2. UMITATION ON CONVEYANCE. 
No part of any land convened under section 1 may be used, 
during the 30-year period beginning on the date of conveyance 
imder section l(cXl), for any purpose other than to provide a 
site for a facility to house the Resource Center and any necessary 
related appurtenances to that faciUty. 
SEC 3. SATELLITE HEALTH CENTERS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—^Not later than 4 years after the date 
of the conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital, after 
consultation with the District of Columbia Commission of Public 
Health and the District of Columbia State Health Planning 
and Development Agency, shall establish, maintain, and oper-
ate 3 satellite health centers. 
(2) PERSONS TO BE SERVED.—One of the satellite health 
centers shall provide comprehensive health and counseling serv-
ices exclusively for teenage women and their children. The 
other 2 satellite health centers shall provide comprehensive 
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health and counseling services for women (including teenage 
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 comprehensive health and counseling services pro-
vided by the centers is the greatest. In locating such centers, 
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; 
(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 flexiole hours of service. 
(c) REQUIRED CONSiDERATiON.^The establishment, operation, 
and maintenance of satellite health centers by Colimibia 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 imder section 1 shall 
revert to the United States— 
(1) on the date which is 4 years edter the date of such 
conveyance if Columbia Hospital is not operating the Resource 
Center on such property; and 
(2) on £uiy date in the 30-vear period beginning on the 
date of such conveyance, on which tiie property is used for 
a purpose other than that referred to in section 2. 
(b) REPAYMENT.—^If property reverts to the United States under 
subsection (a), the Administrator shall pay to Columbia Hospital, 
from amounts otherwise appropriated from the fund established 
by section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Serv-
ices Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 49(Xf)), 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 PUBUC BUILDINGS SERVICE.—Property that 
reverts to the United States under this section— 
(1) shall be under the control of the Greneral 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 imder section l(cXl), 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 shall 
be liable to the United States for damages in an amount equal 
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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 dam-
ages for which Columbia Hospital may be liable under this section 
shall be $3,000,000. 
(c) ADJUSTMENTS FOR INFLATION.—The amoimt of damages 
specified in subsection (a) and the maximum amoimt of damages 
specified in subsection (b) shall be adjusted 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 luider this section; or 
(2) waive all or any part of damages recoverable imder 
this section for that failure, if the Administrator— 
(A) determines the failure is caused by exceptioncd 
circumstances; and 
(B) submits a statement to the District of Columbia 
Commission of Public Health emd the Congress, that sets 
forth the reasons for the determination. 
(e) CONVEYANCE DOCUMENTS.—The Administrator shall include 
in the documents for any conveyance under this Act appropriate 
provisions t o ^ 
(1) ensiu^ that pa3rment of damages under this section 
is a contractual obligation of Columbia Hospital; and 
(2) require the Administrator to provide to Colimibia Hos-
pital notice and an opportunity to respond before the Adminis-
trator 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 committees of the Congress, 
and the Comptroller General of the United States annual reports 
on the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the Resovirce 
Center and the satellite health centers. 
SEC. 7. MEMBER INSTITUTES. 
The Resource Center should— 
(1) include among its outreach activities the establishment 
of formal linkages with no less thcui 6 imiversities or health 
centers throughout the Nation, to be known as "member 
institutes" in furtherance of the purposes of the Resource Cen-
ter; and 
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(2) provide national notice of the opportunity such entities 
have to participate in programs and activities of tiie Resource 
Center. 
Approved August 11, 1993. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 490: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 103-23, Pt. 1 (Ckimm. on Public Works and Transportation). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 103-125 (Ck)mm. on Governmental Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 139 (1993): 
Mar. 9, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 6, considered and passed Senate.