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 110 STAT. 3009 -335 PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 Administration shall not be available for expenses in connection with any construction, repair, alteration, and acquisition project for which a prospectus, if required by the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, has not been approved, except that necessary funds may be expended for each project for required expenses in connection with the development of a proposed prospectus: Provided further, That the Administrator of General Services shall, at the earliest practicable date, initiate discussions with the Smithsonian Institution on the feasibility of transferring Federal Building lOB located at 600 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC to the Smithsonian Institution at such price and under such terms and conditions as determined appropriate by the Administrator and subject to the prior approval of the appropriate authorizing and appropriations committees of the Congress: Provided further. That funds provided in this Act under the heading "Security Enhancements, various buildings" may be used, by project in accord- 40 USC 872 note, ance with an approved prospectus: Provided further. That the Administrator is authorized in fiscal year 1997 and thereafter, to enter into and perform such leases, contracts, or other transactions with any agency or instrumentality of the United States, the several States, or the District of Columbia, or with any person, firm, association, or corporation, as may be necessary to implement the trade center plan at the Federal Triangle Project and is hereby granted all the rights and authorities of the former Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC) with regard to property transferred from the PADC to the General Services Administration in fiscal year 1996: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of General Services is hereby authorized to use all funds transferred from the PADC or income earned on PADC properties for activities associated with carrying out the responsibilities of the PADC transferred to the Administrator of General Services and that any such income earned on or after April 1, 1996, shall be deposited to the Pennsylvania Avenue Activities account and shall remain available until expended: Provided further. That any funds or income as may be deemed by the Administrator as excess to the amount needed to fulfill the PADC responsibilities transferred to the Administrator of General Services, shall be applied to any outstanding debt, with the exception of debt associated with the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, incurred by the PADC in the course of acquiring real estate: Provided further, That with respect to real property transferred from the PADC to the General Services Administration pursuant to section 313 of Public Law 104-134, Title III, General Provisions, the Administrator of General Services is hereafter authorized and dii^ected to make payments required by section 10(b) of the PADC Act of 1972, Public Law 92-578 in the same manner as previously paid by the PADC: Provided further, That for the purposes of this authorization, buildings constructed pursuant to the purchase contract authority of the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 602a), buildings occupied pursuant to installment purchase contracts, and buildings under the control of another department or agency where alterations of such buildings are required in connection with the moving of such other department or agency from buildings then, or thereafter to be, under the control of the General Services Administration shall be considered to be federally owned buildings: Provided further, That funds available in the Federal Buildings Fund may

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