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GGD-95-202R 1 (1995-07-24)

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   A    )    United States
(3    O      General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             General Government Division

             B-260500




             July 24, 1995


             The Honorable Larry Pressler
             Chairman
             The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
             Ranking Minority Member
             Committee on Commerce, Science,
               and Transportation
             United States Senate

             The Honorable Robert S. Walker
             Chairman
             The Honorable George E. Brown, Jr.
             Ranking Minority Member
             Committee on Science
             House of Representatives

             The Fire Administration Authorization Act of 1992 (Public Law
             102-522) requires automatic fire sprinklers or an equivalent
             level of safety for leased federal office buildings with at
             least 35,000 square feet of federally occupied space and some
             portion of the space located above the 5th floor. The act
             provides for an exemption to this requirement ...if the
             leasing agency certifies that no suitable building with
             automatic sprinkler systems or an equivalent level of safety
             is available at an affordable cost.

             The act, dated October 26, 1992, provided a 2-year delay in
             the effective date for the fire safety provision, during which
             period the General Services Administration (GSA) was required
             to promulgate regulations to define the term equivalent level
             of safety. After completing a formal rule-making process,
             GSA published the regulation in the Federal Register on
             November 1, 1994, with an effective date of October 26, 1994.1
             Within 3 years of its enactment, the act also requires us to
             audit a sample of such exemption certifications. This letter
             is in response to that requirement.


             141 C.F.R. part 101-6, Fire Protection (Fire Safety)
             Engineering.

                                 GAO/GGD-95-202R Leased Federal Office Space

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