Title 48 — Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-90
§27 [federal Property and Administrative Services Act; Amendment.]
Title 48 › Chapter 3— HAWAII › § 27
Summary
Changes wording in four places to update which U.S. areas are named. Section 3(f) removes mention of the continental United States and Hawaii and instead refers to the states and the District of Columbia. Section 211(j) changes its list to the states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. possessions. Section 404(c) will refer to the states and D.C., and section 702(a) drops the Territory of Hawaii.
Full Legal Text
Title 48, §27
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The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended by—
“(a)striking out the words ‘continental United States (including Alaska), Hawaii,’ in section 3(f) and inserting in lieu thereof the words ‘States of the Union, the District of Columbia,’;
“(b)striking out the words ‘continental United States, its Territories, and possessions’ in section 211(j) and inserting in lieu thereof the words ‘States of the Union, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the United States’;
“(c)striking out the words ‘continental limits of the United States’ in section 404(c) and inserting in lieu thereof the words ‘States of the Union and the District of Columbia’; and
“(d)striking out the words ‘and the Territory of Hawaii’ in section 702(a).
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Citation
48 U.S.C. § 27
Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
May 14, 2026
Release point: 119-90