Volume 46
Public Law 71–107
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to expedite work on the Federal building program authorized by the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings and for other purposes,” approved May 25, 1926, and Acts amendatory thereof.
Approved February 6, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to expedite work on the Federal building program authorized by the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings and for other purposes,” approved May 25, 1926, and Acts amendatory thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That to enable
Public Buildings Act of 1926, etc.
Construction under, to be expedited.
Vol. 44, pp. 630, 687.
Vol. 45, pp. 137, 1041.
Ante, p. 349.
the Secretary of the Treasury to expedite work on the Federal building program authorized by the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings and for other purposes,” approved May 25, 1926, and Acts amendatory thereof, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to obtain by contract without competition, topographical
Surveys of sites.
surveys of sites, test pits and borings where such sites have been selected although title thereto may not have been vested in the United States; to limit to such number of days as he deems proper the advertising
Advertising for bids, etc.
for bids for sites for public buildings; to obtain outside architectural, engineering, technical, or professional services to such extent
Outside professional services.
as he deems necessary in connection with the plans and specifications for Federal buildings which have been specifically authorized to be constructed where the sites have been selected notwithstanding title to such sites may not have been vested in the United States.
Approved, February 6, 1931.