An Act to amend section 204(b) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to extend the authority of the Administrator of General Services to pay direct expenses in connection with the utilization of excess real property and related personalty, and for other purposes
PL 86-215 (S.900), enacted 09/01/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-215-SEPT. 1, 1959 
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Proposed memo-
rial competition. 
Reports to Pres-
i d e n t and Con-
gress. 
Appropriation. 
69 Stat. 694. 
SEC. 2. The Commission is authorized to hold a competition or 
competitions for the proposed memorial, and to award a suitable 
prize or prizes in connection therewith, but may refuse to employ any 
successful competitor if it deems that his design should not be used. 
The competition for the proposed memorial shall be carried out so as 
to insure that it will be harmonious as to location, design, and land 
use with the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and the 
Lincoln Memorial. 
In holding the competition the Commission shall 
avail itself of the assistance and advice of the Commission of Fine 
Arts, of the National Capital Planning Commission, and of the 
National Park Service, and such Commissions and Service shall, upon 
request, render such assistance and advice. 
SEC. 3. The Commission shall report the result of the competition, 
together with its recommendations, to the President and Congress at 
the earliest practicable date. 
SEC. 4. There is authorized to be appropriated not more than 
$150,000 to be expended by the Franklin Delano Koosevelt Memorial 
Commission in organizing the competitions for plans for the design 
of the memorial, as authorized by subsection (c) of section 2 of the 
joint resolution, approved August 11, 1955. 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
September 1, 1959 
[S. 900] 
Public Law 86-215 
AN ACT 
To amend section 204(b) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949 to extend the authority of the Administrator of General Services to 
pay direct expenses in connection with the utilization of excess real property 
and related personalty, and for other purposes. 
utilization of ex-
cess property, ex-
penses. 
68 Stat. 1051. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of Ainerica in Congress assembled^ That the second 
sentence of subsection (b) of section 204 of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 388, as amended; 40 
IT.S.C. 485 (b)) is further amended by deleting the word "dispositions" 
from the second sentence of said subsection (b) and inserting in lieu 
thereof the words "utilization of excess property and the disposal". 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
Public Law 86-216 
September 1. 1959 
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[H. R. 303] 
IJIQ provide for the conveyance of certain real property in the District of Colum-
bia to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. 
A s s o c i a t i o n of 
the Oldest Inhabi-
tants of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Board of 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed 
to convey to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District 
of Columbia, all right, title, and interest of the District of Columbia 
in and to the real property in the District of Columbia described in 
section 2 of this Act: Provided^ That whenever the said real property 
no longer is occupied by the said association for the purposes of said 
association, all right, title, and interest of the said association in and 
to such property shall revert to the District of Columbia. 
As used in this section, the term "purposes of said association", 
means substantially the purposes of the said association as they were