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PUBLIC LAW 89-317-NOV. 2, 1965

[79 STAT.

Public Law 89-317 November 2, 19 65

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JOINT

RESOLUTION

L_ To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on behalf of the United State® to transfer from the United States to the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency title to certain real property in said District.

Whereas, pursuant to the applicable provisions of Acts of February 12, 1 ^ 1 (31 S t a t 767), and February 28, 1903 (32 Stat. 909), herein47-718 and note. after referred to as the "Union Station Acts", certain streets within the District of Columbia were "completely vacated and abandoned by the public and closed to public use" and "vacated, abandoned, and closed", and the use thereof granted to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the terminal company provided for in section 10 of such Act approved February 12, 1901, and the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington Railroad Company, the latter company having thereafter leased said street area to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company under a nine hundred and ninety-nine-year lease (said companies collectively being hereinafter referred to as the "railroads") for the railroad use prescribed in the Union Station Acts, subject to taxation by the District of Columbia; and Whereas said grant by the Congress of the use of these street areas was, in part, consideration for the dedication by the railroads to the District of Columbia for street and highway purposes of certain land owned in fee simple by the railroads; and Whereas the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (60 D.C. Code Stat. 790), as amended (title 5, chap. 7, D.C. Code, 1961 ed.) (here-70 1 note. inafter referred to as the "Redevelopment Act"), requires the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (hereinafter referred to as the "Agency") to carry out duly adopted urban renewal plans, and the duly adopted urban renewal plan for Southwest urban renewal project area C requires acquisition by the Agency of certain properties within and abutting said street areas and redevelopment of said properties for other than railroad use; and Whereas, for value received, the railroads sold to the Agency the fee simple title to those portions of said properties owned by them in fee simple, as well as all right, title, and interest in the former street, alley, and other United States-owned reservations vested in them by the Union Station Acts; and Whereas, notwithstanding that sale by the railroads, the United States continues to own bare legal title to said properties covered by the Union Station Acts and, in order for the Agency to exercise its responsibilities and duties under said urban renewal plan and said Redevelopment Act, it is necessary that title to these properties be transferred to, and vested in, the Agency for subsequent sale or lease for private development: Now, therefore, be it D.C. Code 47 720 and note,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United D.C. X raiisier i States of AmeHca in Congress assembled, That, in accordance with the Transfer of U.S. reai'^rop^erty.'^'"' provisions of this joint resolution, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, consistent with their approval of the urban renewal plan requiring such action, are authorized and directed on behalf of the United States of America to transfer to the Agency all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following real properties in the District of Columbia: (a) Part of Maryland Avenue Southwest, of Thirteen-and-a-Half Street Southwest, and of Thirteenth Street Southwest, described as follows: Beginning for the same at the intersection of the northerly line of Maryland Avenue Southwest, with the east line of Fourteenth Street

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