§490f. Lease space rent rates and payments; appropriations

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, agencies are on and after October 6, 1992, authorized to make rent payments to the General Services Administration for lease space relating to expansion needs of the agency and the General Services Administration is authorized to use such funds, in addition to the amount received as New Obligational Authority in the Rental of Space activity of the Federal Buildings Fund. Such payments are to be at the commercial equivalent rates specified by section 490(j) ¹ of this title and are to be deposited into the Fund established pursuant to section 490(f) of this title.

(b) There are hereby appropriated, out of the Federal Buildings Fund, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of subsection (a) of this section.

( Pub. L. 102–393, title IV, §5, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1750 .)

References in Text

Section 490(j) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original "section 201(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(j))" and was translated as reading "section 210(j)" of that Act to reflect the probable intent of Congress. Section 201 of that Act, which is classified to section 481 of this title, does not contain a subsec. (j).

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the appropriation act cited as the credit to this section, and not as part of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, part of which comprises this chapter.

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

Pub. L. 102–141, title IV, §7, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 856 .

Pub. L. 101–509, title IV, §8, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1414 .

¹ See References in Text note below.