ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL Capitol Buildings and Grounds senate office buildings For an additional amount for “Senate Office Buildings”, $200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That any buildings in Square 724 in the District of Columbia, acquired under authority of Public Law 92–607, occupied by the Senate, shall be subject to the provisions of the Act of June 8, 1942 (40 U.S.C. 174 (c) and (d)) and the Act of July 31, 1946, as amended (40 U.S.C. 193a–193m, 212a, and 212b). acquisition of property as a site for parking facilities for the united states senate The fifth proviso under this head in the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973 (86 Stat. 1511), is amended by inserting after the words “purposes or” and before the words “to lease” a comma and the following language: “without regard to section 3617 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 484) and section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5 and 6a–1),”. additional parking facilities for congressional employees Not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriation provided under this head in the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1974 is hereby made available for expenditure by the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Select Committee on Parking of the House of Representatives created and appointed under authority of House Resolution 145, Ninety-third Congress, agreed to February 7, 1973, for the employment of consultants, by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to make a detailed study of the House garages located in the Rayburn and Cannon House Office Buildings and in Squares 637 and 691 to determine the feasibility of providing additional parking within such garages and the means by which such additional parking can be effectively so provided.