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CED-79-71a 1 (1979-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazzq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 0 C 20545 3 in i iMarch 31, 1979 111007 The Honorable Morris K. Udall 7 Chairman, Committee on Interior )/, and Insular Affairs VR - House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: By lett dated February 26, 1979, you requested that we review the istoric preservati n program of the Pennsylvania Avenue Deve opment Corporationj(PADC), focusing on the pro-A/ posed demolition of Kann's Department Store as a case in point. You asked that we determine whether applicable laws, regulations, and procedures had been followed and whether PADC had fully compared the cost of demolition to the costs of other alternatives, including long-term adaptive re-use. On March 26, 1979, we briefed your Committee, the Subcommittee on Public Lands, and the Subcommittee on National Parks and Insular Affairs on the results of our work. We were requested to provide this letter, which summarizes the information presented at that briefing, together with a chronology of certain events relating to the proposed demolition of Kann's Department Store. Our review disclosed that PADC has complied with applicable laws, regulations, and procedures in its actions regarding Kann's Department Store. With regard to the cost comparison question, the Penn- sylvania Avenue Plan of 1974, which was approved by Congress on May 19, 1975, provides for a four-block superblock multi-use housing complex which will require the demolition of Kann's. Kann's occupies less than one-fourth of this four-block area. PADC is obligated to carry out the approved development plan pursuant to its enabling legislation 2 (P.L. 92-578, Section 5(e)). While it is within PADC's ' discretionary authority to consider alternatives to the plan at any time, such as the Ridley proposal, by which the Kann -buildings would be renovated and adapted to housing, any sub- stantive changes would be required to undergo the same review and approval process as the 1974 plan. PADC considered but CED-79-71 a

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