USE OF UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY FOR FACILITIES TO ASSIST THE HOMELESS.

SEC. 501. USE OF UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY FOR FACILITIES TO ASSIST THE HOMELESS. (a) Identification of Underutilized Suitable Buildings and Property.— The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall collect information about Federal public buildings and other Federal real properties (including fixtures) that are described in surveys by the heads of controlling agencies as underutilized and shall identify which of those buildings and properties are suitable for use for facilities to assist the homeless. The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Administrator of General Services, shall develop criteria with respect to suitability of such property for use as facilities to assist the homeless. (b) Agency Responses.— The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall notify each Federal agency with respect to any property of that agency that the Secretary has identified under subsection (a) of this section. The head of such agency shall, within 30 days after receipt of such a notice, transmit to the Secretary and the Administrator of General Services the agency’s response, which shall include— 101 STAT. 510 (1) a statement of the agency’s intention to declare the property excess to the agency’s need, in accordance with applicable law; or (2) a statement of the reasons that the property cannot be declared excess. (c) Availability for Facilities To Assist the Homeless.— The Administrator of General Services and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in accordance with other applicable Federal law, take such actions as may be necessary to make buildings and property identified under subsection (a) available for use for facilities to assist the homeless operated by private nonprofit organizations, units of local government, and States. (d) Availability of Federal Buildings or Property by Lease.— (1) Federal buildings or property may be made available under this section only through the use of leases for at least 1 year. Ownership of the buildings and property shall not be transferred from the Federal Government. (2) To permit leases of surplus Federal buildings and other real property under this section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Administrator of General Services shall include, as a permissible use in the protection of public health within the meaning of section 203(k) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, the furnishing of real property for use for facilities to assist the homeless and shall issue regulations permitting leases for such public-health purposes. (e) Quarterly Reports.— Within 90 days after the enactment of this Act and quarterly thereafter, the Administrator of General Services shall submit to the Congress and to the Interagency Council on the Homeless quarterly reports on the implementation of this section. Such reports shall include— (1) a list of the properties identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under subsection (a); (2) a statement of the agency responses under subsection (b) to such identifications; and (3) a description of the actions taken by the Administrator and the Secretary of Health and Human Services under applicable law to make such property available for use for facilities to assist the homeless operated by private nonprofit organizations, units of local government, and States.