NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION operating expenses For necessary expenses in connection with National Archives and Records Administration and related activities, as provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the review and declassification of documents, and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, $121,900,000, of which $125,000 shall be made available directly to the Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts for such expenses as are necessary for the proper preservation, restoration, and dis-play of the Presidential papers of Calvin Coolidge, and of which $4,000,000 for allocations and grants for historical publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, as amended, shall remain available until expended, and of which $4,100,000 shall remain available until expended for continuation of construction at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts: Provided, That notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341(a)(1) or any other provisions of law, the Archivist of the United States is authorized, pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 2903, to enter into a contract for construction and related services for a new National Archives facility in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on a site provided, without charge, to the United States by the University of Maryland or the State of Maryland, which site may be transferred to the United States by less than fee simple estate, but shall remain available to the United States so long as it shall be used as a National Archives facility. The contract shall provide, by lease or installment payments payable out of annual appropriations over a period not to exceed thirty years, for the payment of the purchase price and associated costs, which shall not exceed $205,000,000 plus escalation to the midpoint of construc-102 STAT. 1744tion, and reasonable interest thereon. The contract shall further provide that title to the building shall vest in the United States at or before the expiration of the contract term upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the contract.