[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 41, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 41CFR102-83.95]

[Page 280-281]
 
           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
 
               CHAPTER 102--FEDERAL MANAGEMENT REGULATION
 
PART 102-83_LOCATION OF SPACE--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart B_Location of Space
 
Sec. 102-83.95  After an agency has identified that its geographic 

service area and delineated area are in an urban area, what is the 
next step for an agency?

    After an agency identifies its geographic service area and 
delineated area within which it wishes to locate specific activities are 
in an urban area (i.e., determined that the agency's mission 
requirements dictate a need to locate its facility in an urban area), 
Federal agencies must seek space in historic properties already under 
agency control, in accordance with section 110 of the National Historic 
Preservation Act. The Act provides that prior to purchasing, 
constructing or leasing new space, Federal agencies must:
    (a) Consider agency-controlled historic properties within historic 
districts inside central business areas when locating Federal 
operations, in accordance with Executive Order 13006 (which, by 
reference, also incorporates the requirements in Executive Order

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12072 and the Rural Development Act of 1972);
    (b) Then consider agency-controlled developed or undeveloped sites 
within historic districts, if no suitable agency-controlled historic 
property specified in paragraph (a) of this section is available;
    (c) Then consider agency-controlled historic properties outside of 
historic districts, if no suitable agency-controlled site exists within 
a historic district as specified in paragraph (b) of this section;
    (d) Then consider non-historic agency-controlled properties, if no 
suitable agency-controlled historic properties outside of historic 
districts exist as specified in paragraph (c) of this section;
    (e) Then consider historic properties under the custody and control 
of the U.S. Postal Service, if there is no available space in non-
historic agency-controlled properties specified in paragraph (d) of this 
section.
    (f) Then consider non-historic properties under the custody and 
control of the U.S. Postal Service, if there is no available space in 
historic properties under the custody and control of the U.S. Postal 
Service specified in paragraph (e) of this section.