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B-171594 1 (1974-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkxh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RFESTRICTrED - Not to be released outside the General 71.r' Accounting Office except oH the basis of specific approval by the Office of Congressional Regat ons, a record of which 7pi7. 7 f is kept by the Distribution Section, Publications Branch, O UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 205480 GENERAL GOVERNMENT F - Ai ED DIVISION B-171594 JUL 17 974 The Honorable Larry Winn, Jr. House of Representatives Dear Mr. Winn: By letter of March 14, 1974, you asked us to consider Mr. Dale R. Meyer's letter to you concerning the acquisition of his property, tract 103, for a Kansas City Bulk Mail Center (BMC). In accordance with discussions with your office, we are providing information on the appro- priateness of the land appraisal made on tract 103. We reviewed agency records and discussed the acquisition with officials of the Postal Service and the Corps of Engineers, the realty appraiser who made the land appraisal, and the U. S. attorney involved in the legal proceedings for the final acquisition of tract 103. The Postal Service is in the process of establishing a National Bulk Mail System consisting of 21 BMCs and 12 auxiliary service fa- cilities across the country. One of these facilities is the Kansas City, Kansas, BMC in the Santa Fe industrial district, which includes tract 103 and five other tracts of land. Under agreement with the Department of the Army, the Corps of Engineers handled site acquisition and construction of these BMCs and gave the Postal Service detailed information on available sites X/ in the Kansas City area, including cost estimates. LAND APPRAISAL OF BMC SITE The Corps of Engineers contracted, on December 29, 1971, with an independent appraiser to inspect and appraise the fair market value of the six tracts of land in the BMC site. His appraisal report stated that the tracts 1bave their highest and best use for heavy industrial purposes con- sistent with existing zoning laws. According to the criteria developed by the Interagency Land Acquisition Conference of 1973 concerning uni- form appraisal standards for Federal land acquisition which is followed by the Corps, highest and best use means: , - * * either some existing use on the date of taking, or one which the evidence shows was so reasonably likely in the near future that the availability of the property for that use would

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