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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 22 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish a competitive bidding process for the relocation of the |
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| 6 | 6 | | headquarters of Executive agencies, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY7, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. E |
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| 10 | 10 | | RNSTintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To establish a competitive bidding process for the relocation |
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| 14 | 14 | | of the headquarters of Executive agencies, and for other |
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| 15 | 15 | | purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strategic Withdrawal 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | of Agencies for Meaningful Placement Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | ‘‘SWAMP Act’’. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. RELOCATION OF HEADQUARTERS OF EXECUTIVE 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | AGENCIES. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) D |
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| 25 | 25 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Executive 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | agency’’— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (A) has the meaning given the term in sec-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | tion 105 of title 5, United States Code; and 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (B) does not include— 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (i) the Executive Office of the Presi-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | dent; 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (ii) the Department of Defense, in-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | cluding— 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (I) the Defense Intelligence 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Agency; 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (II) the National Security Agen-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | cy; and 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (III) the National Geospatial-In-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | telligence Agency; 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (iii) the Department of Energy; 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (iv) the Department of Homeland Se-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | curity; 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (v) the Department of State; 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (vi) the Office of the Director of Na-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tional Intelligence; or 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (vii) the Central Intelligence Agency. 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) H |
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| 52 | 52 | | EADQUARTERS.—The term ‘‘head-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | quarters’’— 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (A) means the place or building serving as 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | the managerial and administrative center of an 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Executive agency; and 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (B) does not include an office that the 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | head of an Executive agency may maintain sep-5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | arately from a place or building in the Wash-6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ington metropolitan area. 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (3) S |
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| 65 | 65 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | the 50 States. 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (4) W |
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| 68 | 68 | | ASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA .—The 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | term ‘‘Washington metropolitan area’’ means the ge-11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ographic area located within the boundaries of— 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (A) the District of Columbia; 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (B) Montgomery and Prince George’s 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Counties in the State of Maryland; and 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (C) Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and 16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | Prince William Counties and the City of Alex-17 |
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| 76 | 76 | | andria in the Commonwealth of Virginia. 18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (b) P |
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| 78 | 78 | | ROHIBITION ONLOCATION OFHEADQUARTERS 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | INWASHINGTONMETROPOLITANAREA.— 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (1) I |
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| 81 | 81 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 21 |
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| 82 | 82 | | the headquarters of an Executive agency may not be 22 |
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| 83 | 83 | | located in the Washington metropolitan area. 23 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (2) E |
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| 85 | 85 | | XCEPTION.—Subject to paragraph (3), the 24 |
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| 86 | 86 | | headquarters of an Executive agency located in the 25 |
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| 90 | 90 | | Washington metropolitan area on the date of enact-1 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ment of this Act may remain in the Washington 2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | metropolitan area. 3 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (3) C |
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| 94 | 94 | | ONDITION.—With respect to the head-4 |
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| 95 | 95 | | quarters of an Executive agency that remains in the 5 |
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| 96 | 96 | | Washington metropolitan area under paragraph (2), 6 |
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| 97 | 97 | | after the date of enactment of this Act and except 7 |
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| 98 | 98 | | as otherwise expressly provided by law— 8 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (A) no new construction or major renova-9 |
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| 100 | 100 | | tion may be undertaken on the headquarters; 10 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (B) a lease agreement for the headquarters 11 |
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| 102 | 102 | | may not be renewed; and 12 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (C) a new lease agreement for the head-13 |
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| 104 | 104 | | quarters may not be entered into. 14 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (c) C |
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| 106 | 106 | | OMPETITIVEBIDDINGPROCESS FORRELOCA-15 |
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| 107 | 107 | | TION OFHEADQUARTERS.— 16 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (1) I |
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| 109 | 109 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 18 |
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| 111 | 111 | | of General Services shall establish a process, in ac-19 |
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| 112 | 112 | | cordance with the requirements under paragraph 20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (2), through which— 21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (A) the head of an Executive agency may 22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | submit a request for the Administrator of Gen-23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | eral Services to issue a solicitation for the relo-24 |
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| 120 | 120 | | cation of the headquarters of the Executive 1 |
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| 121 | 121 | | agency; or 2 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (B) if determined necessary, the Adminis-3 |
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| 123 | 123 | | trator of General Services may issue a solicita-4 |
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| 124 | 124 | | tion for the relocation of the headquarters of an 5 |
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| 125 | 125 | | Executive agency. 6 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (2) R |
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| 127 | 127 | | EQUIREMENTS.—With respect to any so-7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | licitation issued for the relocation of the head-8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | quarters of an Executive agency under paragraph 9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (1), the Administrator of General Services shall— 10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (A) allow any State and any political sub-11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | division of a State to submit a proposal for the 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | relocation of the headquarters of the Executive 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | agency; 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (B) provide the public with notice and an 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | opportunity to comment on any proposal sub-16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | mitted under subparagraph (A); and 17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | (C) in consultation with the head of the 18 |
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| 139 | 139 | | Executive agency, select a State, or a political 19 |
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| 140 | 140 | | subdivision of a State, for the relocation of the 20 |
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| 141 | 141 | | headquarters using a competitive bidding proce-21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | dure that considers— 22 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (i) the extent to which the relocation 23 |
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| 144 | 144 | | of the headquarters would impact the econ-24 |
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| 148 | 148 | | omy and workforce development of a State 1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | or political subdivision of a State; 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (ii) whether a State, or a political sub-3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | division of a State, has expertise in car-4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | rying out activities substantially similar to 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | the mission and goals of the Executive 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | agency; and 7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (iii) the extent to which the relocation 8 |
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| 156 | 156 | | of the headquarters to a State, or a polit-9 |
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| 157 | 157 | | ical subdivision of a State, would implicate 10 |
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| 158 | 158 | | national security interests. 11 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (d) R |
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| 160 | 160 | | ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act 12 |
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| 161 | 161 | | shall be construed to prohibit a political subdivision of the 13 |
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| 162 | 162 | | State of Maryland or the Commonwealth of Virginia that 14 |
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| 163 | 163 | | is located outside the Washington metropolitan area from 15 |
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| 164 | 164 | | submitting a proposal under subsection (c)(2)(A). 16 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (e) O |
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| 166 | 166 | | FFSET ALLOWED.—The Administrator of Gen-17 |
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| 167 | 167 | | eral Services may use the proceeds from the sale of any 18 |
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| 168 | 168 | | Federal building or land to offset the cost of relocating 19 |
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| 169 | 169 | | the headquarters of an Executive agency. 20 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (f) N |
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| 171 | 171 | | OADDITIONALFUNDSAUTHORIZED.—The Ad-21 |
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| 172 | 172 | | ministrator of General Services shall carry out this Act 22 |
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| 173 | 173 | | using amounts otherwise made available to the Adminis-23 |
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| 177 | 177 | | trator of General Services, and no additional amounts are 1 |
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| 178 | 178 | | authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act. 2 |
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