Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 2.djvu/738

 102 STAT. 1742

Employment and unemployment. Government organization and employees.

40 USC 490a-l.

Florida.

Arkansas.

PUBLIC LAW 100-440—SEPT. 22, 1988

shall be acquired without regard to the provisions of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 regarding prospectus approval by leasepurchgise contracts entered into by the General Services Administration prior to their construction using funds appropriated annually to the General Services Administration from the Federal Buildings Fund for the rental of space which shall hereafter be available for this purpose. The contracts shall provide for the payment of the purchase price and resisonable interest thereon by lease or installment payments over a period not to exceed thirty years. The contracts shall further provide that title to the buildings shall vest in the United States at or before expiration of the contract term upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the contracts. The Federal Buildings Fund shall be reimbursed from the annual appropriation to the Centers for Disease Control—Disease Control, Research, and Training (or any other appropriation hereafter made available to the CDC for construction of research facilities) and such appropriations shall hereafter be available for the purpose of reimbursing the Federal Buildings Fund. Obligations of funds under these transactions shall be limited to the current fiscal year for which payments are due without regard to 31 U.S.C. 1502 and 1341(a)(1)(B). SEC. 10. The Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed to hire up to and maintain an annual average of not less than one thousand full-time equivalent positions for Federal Protective Officers. This shall be accomplished by increasing existing staff levels at the end of fiscal year 1988 at a rate of not less than fifty positions per year until the full-time equivalency of one thousand is attained by not later than fiscal year 1992. SEC. 11. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of General Services is hereafter authorized to transfer from the available resources of the Federal Buildings Fund, in accordance with such rules and procedures as may be established by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of the Treasury, such amounts as are necessary to repay the principal amount of General Services Administration borrowings from the Federal Financing Bank when such borrowings are legal obligations of the Fund. SEC. 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the General Services Administration is hereby authorized to sell, at competitive bid, the Federal Building located at 124 South Tennessee Avenue in Lakeland, Florida, and to deposit such proceeds into the Federal Buildings Fund. SEC. 13. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, administered by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, without the specific approval of the Congress. SEC. 14. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity of Norfork Lake, Arkansas, administered by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, without the specific approval of the Congress. SEC. 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act the amount appropriated for "General Management and Administration, Salaries and Expenses" of the General Services Administration is $120,774,000 for fiscal year 1989.

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