Federal Trade Commission and National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and Efficiency Act of 2011

Federal Trade Commission and National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and Efficiency Act of 2011 - Requires the Administrator of General Services (GSA), not later than December 31, 2014, to transfer administrative jurisdiction, custody, and control of the building located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, to the National Gallery of Art and to name such building as the North Building of the National Gallery of Art. Requires the National Gallery of Art to pay the costs of remodeling, renovating, or reconstructing such building.

Requires the GSA Administrator to relocate the offices of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) housed in such building to other buildings in Washington, DC, owned by the federal government.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 690 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 690

      To direct the Administrator of General Services to transfer 
   administrative jurisdiction, custody, and control of the building 
 located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., in the District of Columbia, 
        to the National Gallery of Art, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2011

   Mr. Mica (for himself, Mr. Denham, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Coble, Mrs. 
 Schmidt, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Long, Mrs. McMorris 
Rodgers, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Calvert, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Dent, Mr. Young 
of Alaska, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Reichert, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Gerlach, and 
Mr. Buchanan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
      To direct the Administrator of General Services to transfer 
   administrative jurisdiction, custody, and control of the building 
 located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., in the District of Columbia, 
        to the National Gallery of Art, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Trade Commission and 
National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and Efficiency 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law and not later than 
December 31, 2014, the Administrator of General Services shall transfer 
administrative jurisdiction, custody, and control of the building 
located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., District of Columbia, to the 
National Gallery of Art for the purpose of housing and exhibiting works 
of art and to carry out administrative functions and other activities 
related to the mission of the National Gallery of Art.

SEC. 3. REMODELING, RENOVATING, OR RECONSTRUCTING.

    (a) In General.--The National Gallery of Art shall pay for the 
costs of remodeling, renovating, or reconstructing the building 
referred to in section 2.
    (b) Federal Share.--No appropriated funds may be used for the 
initial costs for the remodeling, renovating, or reconstructing of the 
building referred to in section 2.
    (c) Prohibition.--The National Gallery of Art may not use sale, 
lease, or exchange, including leaseback arrangements, for the purposes 
of remodeling, renovating, or reconstructing the building referred to 
in section 2.

SEC. 4. RELOCATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

    (a) Relocation.--Not later than the date specified in section 2, 
the Administrator of General Services shall relocate the Federal Trade 
Commission housed in the building identified in section 2 to--
            (1) up to 200,000 usable square feet of space located in 
        Federal Office Building Number 8, SW., District of Columbia;
            (2) 1800 F Street, NW., District of Columbia; or
            (3) such other building in the District of Colunbia owned 
        by the Government that the Administrator of General Services 
        considers appropriate.
    (b) Rent.--The rental rate applied to the Federal Trade Commission 
by the Administrator of the General Services for use of the building 
identified in section 2 as of the date of enactment of this Act shall 
apply to replacement space provided by the Administrator pursuant to 
subsection (a) for 10 years after the relocation of such Commission.

SEC. 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.

    Beginning on the date that the National Gallery of Art occupies the 
building referred to in section 2--
            (1) the building shall be known and designated as the 
        ``North Building of the National Gallery of Art''; and
            (2) any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
        paper, or other record of the United States to the building 
        shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``North Building of 
        the National Gallery of Art''.

SEC. 6. OFFSETTING SAVINGS.

    (a) In General.--There shall be an amount available from the 
savings, described in subsection (b), in the Federal Buildings Fund 
established by section 592 of title 40, United States Code, for the 
purposes of relocating the Federal Trade Commission pursuant to section 
4.
    (b) Savings.--The amount referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
derived from the difference between the amount made available from the 
Fund for fiscal year 2010 and prior fiscal years related to the a 
courthouse located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the amount approved in 
the resolution of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
adopted December 2, 2010, related to such courthouse.
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