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40 U.S.C. § 581 — General authority of Administrator of General Services
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**(a)** Repealed. Pub. L. 107–296, title XVII, § 1706(a)(1), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2316.]
**(b) Personnel and Equipment.—** The Administrator of General Services may—
(1) employ and pay personnel at per diem rates approved by the Administrator, not exceeding rates currently paid by private industry for similar services in the place where the services are performed; and
(2) purchase, repair, and clean uniforms for civilian employees of the General Services Administration who are required by law or regulation to wear uniform clothing.
**(c) Acquisition and Management of Property.—**
(1) **Real estate.—** — The Administrator may acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, real estate and interests in real estate.
(2) **Ground rent.—** — The Administrator may pay ground rent for buildings owned by the Federal Government or occupied by federal agencies, and pay the rent in advance if required by law or if the Administrator determines that advance payment is in the public interest.
(3) **Rent and repairs under a lease.—** — The Administrator may pay rent and make repairs, alterations, and improvements under the terms of a lease entered into by, or transferred to, the Administration for the housing of a federal agency.
(4) **Repairs that are economically advantageous.—** — The Administrator may repair, alter, or improve rented premises if the Administrator determines that doing so is advantageous to the Government in terms of economy, efficiency, or national security. The Administrator’s determination must—
(A) set forth the circumstances that make the repair, alteration, or improvement advantageous; and
(B) show that the total cost (rental, repair, alteration, and improvement) for the expected life of the lease is less than the cost of alternative space
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**(a)** Repealed. Pub. L. 107–296, title XVII, § 1706(a)(1), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2316.]
**(b) Personnel and Equipment.—** The Administrator of General Services may—
(1) employ and pay personnel at per diem rates approved by the Administrator, not exceeding rates currently paid by private industry for similar services in the place where the services are performed; and
(2) purchase, repair, and clean uniforms for civilian employees of the General Services Administration who are required by law or regulation to wear uniform clothing.
**(c) Acquisition and Management of Property.—**
(1) **Real estate.—** — The Administrator may acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, real estate and interests in real estate.
(2) **Ground rent.—** — The Administrator may pay ground rent for buildings owned by the Federal Government or occupied by federal agencies, and pay the rent in advance if required by law or if the Administrator determines that advance payment is in the public interest.
(3) **Rent and repairs under a lease.—** — The Administrator may pay rent and make repairs, alterations, and improvements under the terms of a lease entered into by, or transferred to, the Administration for the housing of a federal agency.
(4) **Repairs that are economically advantageous.—** — The Administrator may repair, alter, or improve rented premises if the Administrator determines that doing so is advantageous to the Government in terms of economy, efficiency, or national security. The Administrator’s determination must—
(A) set forth the circumstances that make the repair, alteration, or improvement advantageous; and
(B) show that the total cost (rental, repair, alteration, and improvement) for the expected life of the lease is less than the cost of alternative space not needing repair, alteration, or improvement.
(5) **Insurance proceeds for defense industrial reserve.—** — At the direction of the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator may use insurance proceeds received for damage to property that is part of the Defense Industrial Reserve to repair or restore the property.
(6) **Maintenance contracts.—** — The Administrator may enter into a contract, for a period not exceeding five years, for the inspection, maintenance, and repair of fixed equipment in a federally owned building.
**(d) Lease of Federal Building Sites.—**
(1) **In general.—** — The Administrator may lease a federal building site or addition, including any improvements, until the site is needed for construction purposes. The lease must be for fair rental value and on other terms and conditions the Administrator considers to be in the public interest pursuant to [section 545 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section545&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Negotiation without advertising.—** — A lease under this subsection may be negotiated without public advertising for bids if—
(A) the lessee is—
(i) the former owner from whom the Government acquired the property; or
(ii) the former owner’s tenant in possession; and
(B) the lease is negotiated incident to or in connection with the acquisition of the property.
(3) **Deposit of rent.—** — Rent received under this subsection may be deposited into the Federal Buildings Fund.
**(e) Assistance to the Inaugural Committee.—** The Administrator may provide direct assistance and special services for the Inaugural Committee (as defined in [section 501 of title 36](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title36-section501&num=0&edition=prelim)) during an inaugural period in connection with Presidential inaugural operations and functions. Assistance and services under this subsection may include—
(1) employment of personal services without regard to chapters 33 and 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5;
(2) providing Government-owned and leased space for personnel and parking;
(3) paying overtime to guard and custodial forces;
(4) erecting and removing stands and platforms;
(5) providing and operating first-aid stations;
(6) providing furniture and equipment; and
(7) providing other incidental services in the discretion of the Administrator.
**(f) Utilities for Defense Industrial Reserve and Surplus Property.—** The Administrator may—
(1) provide utilities and services, if the utilities and services are not provided by other sources, to a person, firm, or corporation occupying or using a plant or portion of a plant that constitutes—
(A) any part of the Defense Industrial Reserve pursuant to [section 4881 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4881&num=0&edition=prelim); or
(B) surplus real property; and
(2) credit an amount received for providing utilities and services under this subsection to an applicable appropriation of the Administration.
**(g) Obtaining Payments.—** The Administrator may—
(1) obtain payments, through advances or otherwise, for services, space, quarters, maintenance, repair, or other facilities furnished, on a reimbursable basis, to a federal agency, a mixed-ownership Government corporation (as defined in chapter 91 of title 31), or the District of Columbia; and
(2) credit the payments to the applicable appropriation of the Administration.
**(h) Cooperative Use of Public Buildings.—**
(1) **Leasing space for commercial and other purposes.—** — The Administrator may lease space on a major pedestrian access level, courtyard, or rooftop of a public building to a person, firm, or organization engaged in commercial, cultural, educational, or recreational activity (as defined in [section 3306(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section3306/a&num=0&edition=prelim)). The Administrator shall establish a rental rate for leased space equivalent to the prevailing commercial rate for comparable space devoted to a similar purpose in the vicinity of the public building. The lease may be negotiated without competitive bids, but shall contain terms and conditions and be negotiated pursuant to procedures that the Administrator considers necessary to promote competition and to protect the public interest.
(2) **Occasional use of space for non-commercial purposes.—** — The Administrator may make available, on occasion, or lease at a rate and on terms and conditions that the Administrator considers to be in the public interest, an auditorium, meeting room, courtyard, rooftop, or lobby of a public building to a person, firm, or organization engaged in cultural, educational, or recreational activity (as defined in [section 3306(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section3306/a&num=0&edition=prelim)) that will not disrupt the operation of the building.
(3) **Deposit and credit of amounts received.—** — The Administrator may deposit into the Federal Buildings Fund an amount received under a lease or rental executed pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2). The amount shall be credited to the appropriation from the Fund applicable to the operation of the building.
(4) **Furnishing utilities and maintenance.—** — The Administrator may furnish utilities, maintenance, repair, and other services to a person, firm, or organization leasing space pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2). The services may be provided during and outside of regular working hours of federal agencies.
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**(a) Public Advertising for Bids.—**
(1) **Requirement.—**
(A) *In general.—* — Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the Administrator of General Services may make or authorize a disposal or a contract for disposal of surplus property only after public advertising for bids, under regulations the Administrator prescribes.
(B) *Exceptions.—* — This subsection does not apply to disposal or a contract for disposal of surplus property—
(i) under subsection (b) or (d); or
(ii) by abandonment, destruction, or donation or through a contract broker.
(2) **Time, method, and terms.—** — The time, method, and terms and conditions of advertisement must permit full and free competition consistent with the value and nature of the property involved.
(3) **Public disclosure.—** — Bids must be publicly disclosed at the time and place stated in the advertisement.
(4) **Awards.—** — An award shall be made with reasonable promptness by notice to the responsible bidder whose bid, conforming to the invitation for bids, is most advantageous to the Federal Government, price and other factors considered. However, all bids may be rejected if it is in the public interest to do so.
**(b) Negotiated Disposal.—** Under regulations the Administrator prescribes, disposals and contracts for disposal may be negotiated without regard to subsection (a), but subject to obtaining competition that is feasible under the circumstances, if—
(1) necessary in the public interest—
(A) during the period of a national emergency declared by the President or Congress, with respect to a particular lot of personal property; or
(B) for a period not exceeding three months, with respect to a specifically described category of personal property as determined by the Administrator;
(2) the publ
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For purposes of this chapter—
(1) “Inaugural Committee” means the committee appointed by the President-elect to be in charge of the Presidential inaugural ceremony and functions and activities connected with the ceremony; and
(2) “inaugural period” means the period that includes the day on which the Presidential inaugural ceremony is held, the 5 calendar days immediately preceding that day, and the 4 calendar days immediately following that day.
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**(a) Activities** The Center shall—
(1) receive, aggregate, analyze, and secure, using processes consistent with the processes developed pursuant to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 ([6 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) reports from covered entities related to a covered cyber incident to assess the effectiveness of security controls, identify tactics, techniques, and procedures adversaries use to overcome those controls and other cybersecurity purposes, including to assess potential impact of cyber incidents on public health and safety and to enhance situational awareness of cyber threats across critical infrastructure sectors;
(2) coordinate and share information with appropriate Federal departments and agencies to identify and track ransom payments, including those utilizing virtual currencies;
(3) leverage information gathered about cyber incidents to—
(A) enhance the quality and effectiveness of information sharing and coordination efforts with appropriate entities, including agencies, sector coordinating councils, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, technology providers, critical infrastructure owners and operators, cybersecurity and cyber incident response firms, and security researchers; and
(B) provide appropriate entities, including sector coordinating councils, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, technology providers, cybersecurity and cyber incident response firms, and security researchers, with timely, actionable, and anonymized reports of cyber incident campaigns and trends, including, to the maximum extent practicable
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**(a) Declaration of Purpose and Policy.—** It is the intent of Congress—
(1) to provide a comprehensive and continuous program for the future safety and for the defense of the United States by providing adequate measures whereby an essential nucleus of Government-owned industrial plants and an industrial reserve of machine tools and other industrial manufacturing equipment may be assured for immediate use to supply the needs of the armed forces in time of national emergency or in anticipation thereof;
(2) that such Government-owned plants and such reserve shall not exceed in number or kind the minimum requirements for immediate use in time of national emergency, and that any such items which shall become excess to such requirements shall be disposed of as expeditiously as possible;
(3) that to the maximum extent practicable, reliance will be placed upon private industry for support of defense production; and
(4) that machine tools and other industrial manufacturing equipment may be held in plant equipment packages or in a general reserve to maintain a high state of readiness for production of critical items of defense materiel, to provide production capacity not available in private industry for defense materiel, or to assist private industry in time of national disaster.
**(b) Powers and Duties of the Secretary of Defense.—**
(1) To execute the policy set forth in subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall—
(A) determine which industrial plants and installations (including machine tools and other industrial manufacturing equipment) should become a part of the Defense Industrial Reserve;
(B) designate what excess industrial property shall be disposed of;
(C) establish general policies and provide for the transportation, handling, care, storage, prote
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TITLE 40—PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
§ 581
(2) may enforce, adjust, and settle any right
of the Government with respect to the credit,
lease, or permit.
(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1107.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
Section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
574(a) .........
40:485(c).
June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title
II,
§ 204(c)–(g),
formerly
§ 204(b)–(f), 63 Stat. 389; re-
designated
§ 204(c)–(g),
Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1178,
§ 1(a), 68 Stat. 1051; Pub. L.
96–41, § 3(d), July 30, 1979,
93 Stat. 325.
574(b) .........
40:485(d).
574(c) .........
40:485(e).
574(d) .........
40:485(f).
574(e) .........
40:485(g).
In subsection (b)(1), the words ‘‘in the Treasury’’ are
substituted for ‘‘with the Treasurer of the United
States’’ because of section 1 of Reorganization Plan No.
26 of 1950 (eff. July 31, 1950, 64 Stat. 1280), restated as
31:321.
In subsection (e), the words ‘‘or by War Assets Ad-
ministration (or its predecessor agencies) under the
Surplus Property Act of 1944’’ are omitted because the
War Assets Administration was abolished and its func-
tions were transferred to the General Services Adminis-
tration by section 105 of the Federal Property and Ad-
ministrative Services Act of 1949 (ch. 288, 63 Stat. 381).
Executive Documents
DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of President under subsec. (f) of section 485
of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and
Works (which was repealed and reenacted as subsec. (d)
of this section by Pub. L. 107–217, §§ 1, 6(b), Aug. 21, 2002,
116 Stat. 1062, 1304), delegated to Secretary of Defense,
see section 3 of Ex. Ord. No. 12626, Feb. 25, 1988, 53 F.R.
6114, set out as a note under section 98 of Title 50, War
and National Defense.
SUBCHAPTER
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