[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Senate federal property sales legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senators would speed federal property sales by easing requirements

By Charles S. Clark
Government Executive
June 29, 2012

A Senate version of legislation to speed sales of unneeded federal  
properties cleared the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs  
Committee on Friday after chief sponsor, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del.,  
said it was time to abandon one part of a 1987 law giving advocates  
for the homeless first crack at purchasing excess assets.

The Federal Real Property Asset Management Reform Act, S.2178, would  
set up a five-year pilot program to accelerate sales of an estimated  
78,000 vacant and underused federal buildings, owned by 24 agencies,  
that in fiscal 2010 cost $1.6 billion annually to operate.
The bill would revamp the roles that agencies, the Office of  
Management and Budget, and the General Services Administration  
currently play in identifying unneeded properties and triggering the  
process to get them on the market. It differs from a bill (H.R. 1734)  
the House passed and from a plan the Obama administration put forward  
to set up a private civilian board to package properties for  
submission to Congress for approval to sell.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.govexec.com/management/2012/06/senators-would-speed- 
federal-property-sales-easing-requirements/56551/

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Lenny Siegel
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