Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Part A · Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
§ 379b. Consolidated administrative and laboratory facility
Statutory text
Authority
The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the General Services Administration, shall enter into contracts for the design, construction, and operation of a consolidated Food and Drug Administration administrative and laboratory facility.
Awarding of contract
The Secretary shall solicit contract proposals under subsection (a) from interested parties. In awarding contracts under such subsection, the Secretary shall review such proposals and give priority to those alternatives that are the most cost effective for the Federal Government and that allow for the use of donated land, federally owned property, or lease-purchase arrangements. A contract under this subsection shall not be entered into unless such contract results in a net cost savings to the Federal Government over the duration of the contract, as compared to the Government purchase price including borrowing by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Donations
In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall have the power, in connection with real property, buildings, and facilities, to accept on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration gifts or donations of services or property, real or personal, as the Secretary determines to be necessary.
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1991, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the subsequent fiscal years, to remain available until expended.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act
Pub. L. 101–635 title I § 101 · 104 Stat. 4583
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 379b
(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 710, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title I, § 101, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4583.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 710, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title I, § 101, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4583.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 101. CONSOLIDATED ADMINISTRATIVE AND LABORATORY FACILITY. Chapter VII (21 U.S.C. 371 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “SEC. 710. CONSOLIDATED ADMINISTRATIVE AND LABORATORY FACILITY. “(a) Authority.— The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the General Services Administration, shall enter into contracts for the design, construction, and operation of a consolidated Food and Drug Administration administrative and lab-oratory facility. “(b) Awarding of Contract.— The Secretary shall solicit contract proposals under subsection (a) from interested parties. In awarding contracts under such subsection, the Secretary shall review such proposals and give priority to those alternatives that are the most cost effective for the Federal Government and that allow for the use of donated land, federally owned property, or lease-purchase arrangements. A contract under this subsection shall not be entered into unless such contract results in a net cost savings to the Federal Government over the duration of the contract, as compared to the Government purchase price including borrowing by the Secretary of the Treasury. “(c) Donations.— In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall have the power, in connection with real property, buildings, and facilities, to accept on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration gifts or donations of services or property, real or personal, as the Secretary determines to be necessary. “(d) Authorization of Appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1991, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the subsequent fiscal years, to remain available until expended.”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 710, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title I, § 101, , 104 Stat. 4583.)