HR3620-119

What This Bill Does

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convey approximately 3.372 acres in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Southcentral Foundation for use in health and social services programs, on favorable terms and with specified environmental-liability rules.

Who Benefits and How

The Southcentral Foundation could gain full ownership of property it can use for health and social services programs without paying consideration or accepting ongoing federal conditions or reversionary interests.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The federal government must transfer the property by warranty deed, preserve only necessary easements, and retain responsibility for most pre-conveyance contamination, while the Secretary must comply with federal environmental-transfer requirements.

Key Provisions

• Requires the Secretary to convey all federal right, title, and interest in the specified Anchorage property to the Southcentral Foundation within two years.
• Requires the conveyance to be by warranty deed and forbids consideration, post-transfer obligations or conditions on the foundation, and any reversionary federal interest.
• Provides that the new warranty deed supersedes any prior quitclaim deed to the property and allows the Secretary only reasonably necessary easements or access tied to retained obligations or liabilities.
• Shields the Southcentral Foundation from liability for pre-conveyance contamination, except contamination occurring after the foundation controlled, occupied, and used the property, and requires the Secretary to comply with CERCLA transfer requirements.