Federal Government Decentralization Commission Act

Federal Government Decentralization Commission Act

This bill establishes in the General Services Administration the Federal Government Decentralization Commission to study and submit a plan for the relocation of executive agencies or divisions of executive agencies outside the Washington metropolitan area.

The plan shall include:

• an identification of such new locations, prioritized by relocation to low-income communities or to areas with expertise in the mission and goal of the agency or division;
• a consideration of national security implications;
• an economic and workforce development study on how the relocation would impact the new location; and
• a list of potential site acquisitions and a partial prospectus for such agencies or divisions, including a brief description of the building to be constructed, altered, or leased, the location of the building, and an estimate of the maximum cost of the acquisition and the relocation.