At a glance
Possible toolIND-51 · Property & leases
Authority holder: GSA Administrator for general surplus regime; Service Secretary for specific defense conveyances
Property & leases
Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.
Availability and verificationConditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.
Program process and intake
Checked 2026-10-04 · program documented. Program evidence is separate from legal authority, available funds and transaction approval.
GSA publishes real-property disposal routes with actual completed transactions; excess property is screened before surplus sales, and public-benefit eligibility is not universal.
Federal excess/surplus real-property disposition
- Who this route serves
- Other federal agencies, eligible public/nonprofit entities, or public bidders depending on disposition stage
- Administering office / routing lead
- Landholding military department and GSA Real Property Disposition; sponsoring agency for a public-benefit conveyance
Completed transaction exampleGSA reports the Titan Missile Museum negotiated sale completed in June 2024 for $650,000 fair-market value.
Status reference date: 2024-06 · research checked 2026-10-04
GSA helps local community maintain slice of U.S. history · Titan Missile Museum negotiated-sale paragraphs; 40 USC chapter 5 processofficial completed-transaction news · published 2024-08-13 · Evidence record Program eligibility
Steps and preparation
Funding, limits and authority relationship
GSA real-property disposition routes →
property listings/process: Choose federal transfer, eligible public-use conveyance or the actual public sale; property availability is listing-specific.
Source access and verification notes
- 40 U.S.C. § 541 · 2024 edition (GovInfo) · 40 U.S.C. § 541statute · Evidence record
Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.
- GSA Your Guide to Acquiring Federal Real Estate for Public Uses · Printed p.5, disposal methods in order of progressionofficial process guide · Evidence record
Historical official guide inspected in indexed text. Main audit returned HTTP 401; independent recheck returned HTTP 200 on 2026-10-04. Current discovery: https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-property-disposition.
- GSA Environmental Framework for Real Property Disposal · Foreword; SF118 excess-real-property checklist and environmental due diligencehistorical official process guide · Evidence record
January 2010 guide; use for document/process identification, not current environmental-law certification. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 401 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.
Research scope and sources checked
Reviewed GSA real-property—not personal-property—disposition guidance and a completed former-military-property transaction; separated negotiated sale from public-benefit transfer.
What remains unverified
- No current military parcel inventory was exhaustively checked; individual title, environmental liabilities, agency delegation and sale terms remain property-specific.
A dated source check is not continuing monitoring. Recheck the linked official notice before preparing a submission. Browse program research →
Funding conditions
- Receipts handled under controlling disposal/appropriation law; no general self-financing authority.
Read the funding and execution guide
Who contributes what
Need & planning
- Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff
- Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy
Resources
- Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor
Approval
- Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official
Execution
- USACE district real-estate/construction offices
- NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands
- AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates
Partners & review
- GSA disposal officials
- EPA / State environmental regulators
- State/local or eligible nonprofit transferees
Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.
Coordination pathwayRequirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.
Actor and execution-role sources
What this research establishes
Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedReceipts handled under controlling disposal/appropriation law; no general self-financing authority. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument. Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent. EngagementProcess sourcedGSA publishes real-property disposal routes with actual completed transactions; excess property is screened before surplus sales, and public-benefit eligibility is not universal. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status. Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.
Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.
Review scope: Original research target October 2, 2026; no record-specific last-review date supplied. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.