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Government Space Leased to Commercial activities by Agencies
Other Than the General Services administration. LCD-78-337;
B-114827. October 13, 1978 Released October 23, 1978. 3 pp. + 5
appendices (35 pp.).
Report to dep. John L. Burton, Chairman, House Committee on
Government Operations: Government activities and Transportation
Subcommittee; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Are Agencies Maintaining Government Facilities
Cost-Effectively? (713).
Contacts Logistics and Communications Div.
Budget Function: General Government: General Property and
Records Management (804).
Organization Concerned: General Services Administration; Federal
Home Loan Bank Board; National Bureau of Standards.
Congressional Relevanca: House Cosrittee on Government
Operations: Government Activities and Transportation
Subcommittee. Rep. John L. Burton.
authority: Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 (P.L.
94-541). Federal Property and Administrative Servics Act of
1949 (40 U.S.C. 490). Federal Home Loan Baiik Act (P*L.
89-7541; 12 U.S.C. 1438(c)). Government Corporation Control
Act (31 U.S.C. 846). Randolph-Sheppard Act, National
Environmental Policy Ac'. of 1969. Architectural Barrier Act.
Public Buildings Act of 1959. P.L. 91-375. P.L. 93-1l. 88
Stat. 1106. 40 U.SoC. l4a. 15 U.S.C. 278e. 20 U.S.C. 707. 40
U.S.C. 129. =1 C.F.R. 101. 15 Fed. Reg. 3177.
Reorganization Plan 1 of 1950. Reorganization Plan 18 of
1950. B-112840 (1974).
The Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976
requires the Administrator of the General Services
Administration (GSA) to encourage the location of commercial,
cultural, educational, and recreational facilities and
activities within public buildings. This law applies only to the
GSA and does not authorize other agencies to lease the space
they control. Concern was expressed %bout tbe leasing activities
at the new Federal Rome Loan Bank Board building in Washington
and about National Bureau of Stan4ards fncilities.
Findinqs/Conclusions: The National Bureau of Standards and the
Bank Board cited legislaticu giving them authority to control
and manage the space they occupy as authorization to lease space
to commercial activities, but no legislation exrressly
authorizes these agencies to lease the space they control and
manage. GSA managed design and construction of the new Ban
Board building; although GSA incurred no direct costs relating
to leasing to commercial rctivities, the Bank Board entered into
contracts and purchase orders totaling over $1.9million
relating to commercial areas of the building. GSA did incur
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