Public Buildings Purchase Contract Act of 1953 No. 82-4. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Builidngs and Grounds ... on H.R. 5406

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Page 30 - Lawton, then Director of the Bureau of the Budget, wrote : "Local governments depend upon property taxation for more than half of their total revenues, so that they are particularly concerned when the Federal Government acquires real estate and thereby removes it from the property tax base while at the same time activities on or associated with the Federal property may impose service burdens upon these local governments.
Page 5 - Services is hereby authorized to exercise the authority vested in him by this section (1) to acquire property for postal purposes, or (2) to provide space for postal purposes in buildings acquired under this section for other purposes. (h) With respect to any interest in real property acquired under the provisions of this section, the same shall be subject to State and local...
Page 29 - OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BOARDS Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am Calvin K. Snyder, secretary of the Realtors' Washington Committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards.

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