DISPOSAL Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The DISPOSAL Act requires the General Services Administration to dispose of six named federal buildings in Washington, DC, including the Frances Perkins, Forrestal, Theodore Roosevelt, Weaver, USDA South, and Humphrey buildings. GSA may sell at fair market value or enter ground leases up to 99 years, may relocate agencies or use leasebacks up to five years, and may add up to 20 underutilized GSA buildings per year if utilization is below 60 percent. The bill exempts specified disposals from homeless assistance screening, NEPA, historic preservation, title 40, prospectus, and competition rules, bars foreign persons and foreign-owned entities from buying or leasing, channels implementation costs through the Federal Buildings Fund, sends remaining net proceeds to Treasury deficit reduction, blocks judicial review, and sunsets new authority on December 31, 2028.
Who Benefits and How
Private domestic real estate buyers and long-term lessees benefit from access to major federal properties. Federal taxpayers may benefit if net proceeds exceed relocation and implementation costs and are deposited for deficit reduction. GSA gains broad authority to dispose of underused properties quickly.
Who Bears the Burden and How
GSA officials must manage sales, ground leases, agency relocations, notices to congressional committees, utilization determinations, and proceeds accounting. Federal agencies occupying listed buildings face relocation. Foreign persons and foreign-owned entities are barred from transactions, and homeless-assistance or historic-preservation advocates lose review opportunities because several ordinary disposal laws are bypassed.
Key Provisions
- Requires disposal of six named Washington, DC federal buildings by fair-market-value sale or ground lease up to 99 years.
- Authorizes agency relocation, limited leasebacks, and annual addition of up to 20 underutilized GSA buildings below 60 percent utilization.
- Bars foreign persons, foreign entities, and foreign-beneficial-owner entities from buying or leasing disposed buildings.
- Exempts specified disposals from several ordinary property, environmental, historic-preservation, procurement, and judicial-review requirements.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Directs GSA to sell or ground lease specified federal buildings in Washington, DC, relocate affected agencies, restrict foreign purchasers, and dedicate net proceeds first to relocation costs and then deficit reduction.
Key Policy Areas
Government, Real Estate, Foreign Entities
Primary Purpose
Directs GSA to sell or ground lease specified federal buildings in Washington, DC, relocate affected agencies, restrict foreign purchasers, and dedicate net proceeds first to relocation costs and then deficit reduction.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- domestic real estate buyers
- federal taxpayers
- General Services Administration
Identified Costs
- General Services Administration officials
- relocated federal agencies
- foreign entities
- homeless assistance organizations
- historic preservation advocates
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and …
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
Mr. Steube (for himself, Mr. Clyde, Mrs. Bice, Mr. Bean …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
General Services Administration disposal officials, federal agencies relocated from disposed buildings
foreign entities seeking federal building transactions
homeless assistance organizations seeking surplus property review
historic preservation advocates reviewing federal property disposals
federal taxpayers receiving deficit-reduction proceeds
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Administrator"
- → General Services Administration Administrator
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