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B-95136 1 (1978-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: :o31363 SEP 2 ? 1973 She Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan UnLted States Senate Dear Senator Moynihan: This responds to the joint request by you and three other Members of the Committee on Environment and Public A orks for our opinion on whether section 7(a)4of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, 40 U. S. C. S 606(a),Vpermits expenditures of up to $500, 000 on a buildinir construction, alteration, leasing, or repair project having a total cost exceeding that amount, prior to congressional approval of the building prospectus. You also ask for a report on any prior instances in which the General Services A lministration (GSA) has spent up to $500, 000 prior to prospectus approval, on a project with a total cost exceeding $500, 000 and requiring congressional approval. Section 7(aof the Act provides as follows: In order to insure the equitable distribution of public buildhigs throughout the United States with due regard for the comparative urgency of need for such buildings, except as provided in section 603 of this title, no appropriation shall be made to construct, alter, purchase, or to acquire any building to be used as a public building which involves a total expenditure in excess of $500, 000 if such construction, alteration, purchase, or acquisition has not been approved by resolutions adopted by the Committee on Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. No appropriation shall be made to lease any space at an average annual rental in excess of $500, 000 for use for public purposes if such lease has not been approved by resolutions adopted by the Committee on Public -Works of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. For the purpose of securing consideration for such approval, the Administrator shall transmit to the Congress a prospectus of the proposed facility * * *. Vt The legislative history of the Act indicates that the prinary pur 0L of the Act is--

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