On the recordMay 11, 2000
The only reason it is there is to make sure we all get notice so that Congress knows if any agency wants to take any property and there is an unwilling seller. That way the Congress ends up making that decision under the bill. We end up deciding in a line item whether we are going to authorize any agency to move or not. The bill, in essence, says, and let me say it again, willing sellers have total control of any proceeding, unless Congress, by direct action in a direct separate line item, appropriates and authorizes a taking. The notice is simply to make sure we know what is going on. It is a good provision of the law, not a bad one.
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