Title 40Public Buildings, Property, and WorksRelease 119-73

§622 Collocation among United States Postal Service properties

Title 40 › Subtitle SUBTITLE I— - FEDERAL PROPERTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - PROPERTY MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - PROPERTY MANAGEMENT › § 622

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each year the Postmaster General must make a list of postal properties that have space available for use by federal agencies and, by September 30, send that list to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Postmaster General may also give the list to the Council. If the Council has the list, it must give it to every federal agency within 30 days of the list’s completion. After an agency gets the list, it has 90 days to review the list, check its own properties, and recommend places to co‑locate. If the Postmaster General and the agency head approve the recommendations, the agency can work with the Postmaster General to agree on lease terms. This does not change any other federal rules about competitive bidding for leasing postal property.

Full Legal Text

Title 40, §622

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(a)Each year, the Postmaster General shall—
(1)identify a list of postal properties with space available for use by Federal agencies; and
(2)not later than September 30, submit the list to—
(A)the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
(B)the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives.
(b)Each year, the Postmaster General may submit the list under subsection (a) to the Council.
(c)(1)Not later than 30 days after the completion of a list under subsection (a), the Council shall provide the list to each Federal agency.
(2)Not later than 90 days after the receipt of the list submitted under paragraph (1), each Federal agency shall—
(A)review the list;
(B)review properties under the control of the Federal agency; and
(C)recommend collocations if appropriate.
(d)On approval of the recommendations under subsection (c) by the Postmaster General and the applicable agency head, the Federal agency or appropriate landholding entity may work with the Postmaster General to establish appropriate terms of a lease for each postal property.
(e)Nothing in this section exceeds, modifies, or supplants any other Federal law relating to any competitive bidding process governing the leasing of postal property.

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Change of Name

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019. Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Accountability of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.

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Citation

40 U.S.C. § 622

Title 40Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73