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[H.R. 490 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.490
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three
An Act
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in
Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to
provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National
Women's Health Resource Center.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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(a) Administrator of General Services.--Subject to sections 2 and 4,
the Administrator of General Services (hereinafter in this Act referred
to as the ``Administrator'') shall convey, for $12,800,000 to be paid in
accordance with the terms set forth in subsection (d)(2) and other
consideration required by this Act, to the Columbia Hospital for Women
(formerly Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum; hereinafter
in this Act referred to as ``Columbia Hospital''), located in
Washington, District of Columbia, all right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to those pieces or parcels of land in the District
of Columbia, described in subsection (b), together with all improvements
thereon and appurtenances thereto. The purpose of the conveyance is to
provide a site for the construction by Columbia Hospital of a facility
to house the National Women's Health Resource Center (hereinafter in
this Act referred to as the ``Resource Center''), as described in the
Certificate of Need issued for the Resource Center in conformance with
District of Columbia law and in effect on the date of conveyance.
(b) Property Description.--The land referred to in subsection (a)
was conveyed to the United States of America by deed dated May 2, 1888,
from David Fergusson, widower, recorded in liber 1314, folio 102, of the
land records of the District of Columbia, and is that portion of square
numbered 25 in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia which
was not previously conveyed to such hospital by the Act of June 28, 1952
(Public Law 82-423). Such property is more particularly described as
square 25, lot 803, or as follows: all that piece or parcel of land
situated and lying in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia
and known as part of square numbered 25, as laid down and distinguished
on the plat or plan of said city as follows: beginning for the same at
the northeast corner of the square being the corner formed by the
intersection of the west line of Twenty-fourth Street Northwest, with
the south line of north M Street Northwest and running thence south with
the line of said Twenty-fourth Street Northwest for the distance of two
hundred and thirty-one feet ten inches, thence running west and parallel
with said M Street Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty
feet six inches and running thence north and parallel with the line of
said Twenty-fourth Street Northwest for the distance of two hundred and
thirty-one feet ten inches to the line of said M Street Northwest and
running thence east with the line of said M Street Northwest to the
place of beginning two hundred and thirty feet and six inches together
with all the improvements, ways, easements, rights, privileges, and
appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining.
(c) Date of Conveyance.--
(1) Date.--The date of the conveyance of property required under
subsection (a) shall be the date which is 1 year after the date of
receipt by the Administrator of written notification from Columbia
Hospital that the hospital needs such property for use as a site to
provide housing for the Resource Center.
(2) Deadline for submission of notification.--A written
notification of need from Columbia Hospital shall not be effective
for purposes of subsection (a) and paragraph (1) unless the
notification is received by the Administrator before the date which
is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(d) Conveyance Terms.--
(1) In general.--The conveyance of property required under
subsection (a) shall be subject to such terms and conditions as may
be determined by the Administrator to be necessary to safeguard the
interests of the United States. Such terms and conditions shall be
consistent with the terms and conditions set forth in this Act.
(2) Payment of purchase price.--Columbia Hospital shall pay the
$12,800,000 purchase price in full by not later than the date of
conveyance under subsection (c).
(3) Quitclaim deed.--Any conveyance of property to Columbia
Hospital under this Act shall be by quitclaim deed.
(e) Treatment of Amounts Received.--Amounts received by the United
States as payment under this Act shall be paid into, administered, and
expended as part of the fund established by section 210(f) of the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.
490(f)).

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No part of any land conveyed under section 1 may be used, during the
30-year period beginning on the date of conveyance under section
1(c)(1), for any purpose other than to provide a site for a facility to
house the Resource Center and any necessary related appurtenances to
that facility.

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(a) Requirement.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 4 years after the date of the
conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital, after consultation
with the District of Columbia Commission of Public Health and the
District of Columbia State Health Planning and Development Agency,
shall establish, maintain, and operate 3 satellite health centers.
(2) Persons to be served.--One of the satellite health centers
shall provide comprehensive health and counseling services
exclusively for teenage women and their children. The other 2
satellite health centers shall provide comprehensive health and
counseling services for women (including teenage women) and their
children.
(3) Location.--The satellite health centers shall be located in
areas of the District of Columbia in which the District of Columbia
Department of Public Health has determined that the need for
comprehensive health and counseling services provided by the centers
is the greatest. In locating such centers, special consideration
shall be given to the areas of the District with the highest rates
of infant death and births by teenagers.
(b) Comprehensive Health and Counseling Services.--In subsection
(a), comprehensive health and counseling services include--
(1) examination of women;
(2) medical treatment and counseling of women, including
prenatal and postnatal services;
(3) treatment and counseling of substance abusers and those who
are at risk of substance abuse;
(4) health promotion and disease prevention services;
(5) physician and hospital referral services; and
(6) extended and flexible hours of service.
(c) Required Consideration.--The establishment, operation, and
maintenance of satellite health centers by Columbia Hospital in
accordance with this section shall be part of the consideration required
by this Act for the conveyance under section 1.

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(a) In General.--The property conveyed under section 1 shall revert
to the United States--
(1) on the date which is 4 years after the date of such
conveyance if Columbia Hospital is not operating the Resource Center
on such property; and
(2) on any date in the 30-year period beginning on the date of
such conveyance, on which the property is used for a purpose other
than that referred to in section 2.
(b) Repayment.--If property reverts to the United States under
subsection (a), the Administrator shall pay to Columbia Hospital, from
amounts otherwise appropriated from the fund established by section
210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949
(40 U.S.C. 490(f)), an amount equal to all sums received by the United
States as payments for the conveyance under section 1, without interest
on such amount.
(c) Enforcing Reversion.--The Administrator shall perform all acts
necessary to enforce any reversion of property to the United States
under this section.
(d) Inventory of Public Buildings Service.--Property that reverts to
the United States under this section--
(1) shall be under the control of the General Services
Administration; and
(2) shall be assigned by the Administrator to the inventory of
the Public Buildings Service.

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(a) Damages.--Subject to subsection (b), for each year in the 26-
year period beginning on the date which is 4 years after the date of
conveyance under section 1(c)(1), in which Columbia Hospital does not
operate 3 satellite health centers in accordance with section 3 for a
period of more than 60 days, the Columbia Hospital shall be liable to
the United States for damages in an amount equal to $200,000, except
that this subsection shall not apply after the date of any reversion of
property under section 4.
(b) Limitation in Damages.--The maximum amount of damages for which
Columbia Hospital may be liable under this section shall be $3,000,000.
(c) Adjustments for Inflation.--The amount of damages specified in
subsection (a) and the maximum amount of damages specified in subsection
(b) shall be adjusted biennially to reflect changes in the consumer
price index that have occurred since the date of the enactment of this
Act.
(d) Assessment and Waiver.--For any failure by Columbia Hospital to
operate a satellite health center in accordance with section 3, the
Administrator may--
(1) seek to recover damages under this section; or
(2) waive all or any part of damages recoverable under this
section for that failure, if the Administrator--
(A) determines the failure is caused by exceptional
circumstances; and
(B) submits a statement to the District of Columbia
Commission of Public Health and the Congress, that sets forth
the reasons for the determination.
(e) Conveyance Documents.--The Administrator shall include in the
documents for any conveyance under this Act appropriate provisions to--
(1) ensure that payment of damages under this section is a
contractual obligation of Columbia Hospital; and
(2) require the Administrator to provide to Columbia Hospital
notice and an opportunity to respond before the Administrator seeks
to recover such damages.

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During the 5-year period beginning one year after the date of the
conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital shall submit to the
Administrator, the appropriate committees of the Congress, and the
Comptroller General of the United States annual reports on the
establishment, maintenance, and operation of the Resource Center and the
satellite health centers.

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The Resource Center should--
(1) include among its outreach activities the establishment of
formal linkages with no less than 6 universities or health centers
throughout the Nation, to be known as ``member institutes'' in
furtherance of the purposes of the Resource Center; and
(2) provide national notice of the opportunity such entities
have to participate in programs and activities of the Resource
Center.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

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To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National Women's Health Resource Center.

To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National Women's Health Resource Center. — HR. 490

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