§30309 Use of Abandoned and Underutilized Buildings, Grounds, and Facilities

Summary

Before buying, leasing, or expanding a facility to meet the agency’s needs, the Administrator must consider using other places instead. The choices to check are abandoned or underused buildings, land, or facilities in depressed communities if they can be converted at a reasonable cost; any military base or part of a base that is closed or closing; or property the United States owns or leases for another federal agency that the head of that agency says is extra or not being used. Depressed communities means rural or city areas that are worse off because of things like old housing, high poverty, slow income growth, high unemployment, lack of jobs, or too many workers for the jobs available.