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PUBLIC LAW 86-249-SEPT. 9, 1959

(4) The term "executive agency" means any executive department or independent establishment in the executive branch of the Government including any wholly owned Government corporation and including (A) the Central Bank for Cooperatives and the regional banks for cooperatives, (B) Federal land banks, (C) Federal intermediate credit banks, (D) Federal home loan banks, (E) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and (F) the Federal National Mortgage Association. (5) The term "alter" includes repairing, remodeling, improving, or extending or other changes in a public building. (6) The terms "construct" and "alter" include preliminary planning, engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other similar actions necessary for the construction or alteration, as the case may be, of a public building. (7) The term "United States" includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the SEC. 14. This Act shall not apply to the construction of any public building— (1) for which an appropriation for construction is made out of the $500,000 made available for construction of small public building projects outside the District of Columbia pursuant to the Public Buildings Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, in the third paragraph, or for which an appropriation is made in the fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth paragraphs, under the heading "GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION" in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959,
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(2) which is a project referred to in the first proviso of the fifth paragraph under the heading "GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION" in title i of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959, (3) for which an appropriation for direct construction by an executive agency other than the General Services Administration of a specified public building has been made before the date of enactment of this Act, (4) within the purview of title 8, United States Code, section 1252(c) or title 19, United States Code, section 68, as amended. SEC. 15. The performance, in accordance with standards established aJthorit^ ^*'°" °^ by the Administrator of General Services, of the responsibilities and authorities vested in him under this Act shall, except for the authority contained in section 4, upon request, be delegated to the appropriate executive agency where the estimated cost of the projexjt does not exceed $100,000, and may be delegated to the appropriate executive agency where the Administrator determines that such delegation will promote efficiency and economy. No delegation of responsibility or authority made under this section shall exempt the person to whom such delegation is made, or the exercise of such responsibility or authority, from any other provision of this Act. SEC. 16. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to limit or Restrictions. repeal— (1) existing authorizations for the leasing of buildings by and for the use of the General Services Administration or the Post Office Department, or (2) the authorization for the improvement of public buildings contained in title III of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a postal policy, to adjust postal rates, to adjust the compensation of postal employees, and for other purposes", approved May 27, 1958 (72 Stat. 134; 39 U.S.C. secs. 1071, 1075). SEC. 17. The following provisions of law are repealed except as to Repeals. their application to any project referred to in section 14:
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