Restoring Common Sense to Federal Office Space Management

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April 18, 2025

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April 15, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 74 (Friday, April 18, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 16445-16446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06838]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 74 / Friday, April 18, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14274 of April 15, 2025

                
Restoring Common Sense to Federal Office Space 
                Management

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose. The American people are spread 
                across more than 3.8 million square miles in urban, 
                suburban, and rural areas. To provide the highest 
                quality services in an efficient and cost-effective 
                manner, executive departments and agencies (agencies) 
                must be where the people are.

                President Carter signed Executive Order 12072 of August 
                16, 1978 (Federal Space Management), ordering the 
                Federal Government to prioritize central business 
                districts when siting Federal facilities in urban 
                areas. Intended to improve these districts, President 
                Carter's order has instead prevented agencies from 
                relocating to lower-cost facilities.

                Building on Executive Order 12072, President Clinton 
                signed Executive Order 13006 of May 21, 1996 (Locating 
                Federal Facilities on Historic Properties in Our 
                Nation's Central Cities), to encourage agencies to 
                locate their facilities in historic properties and 
                districts, especially when located in central business 
                areas. Much like President Carter's order, President 
                Clinton's order failed to adequately prioritize 
                efficient and effective Government service.

                Revoking these orders will restore common sense to 
                Federal office space management by freeing agencies to 
                select cost-effective facilities and focus on 
                successfully carrying out their missions for American 
                taxpayers.

                Sec. 2. Revoking Executive Orders. (a) Executive Order 
                12072 is hereby revoked.

                    (b) Executive Order 13006 is hereby revoked.
                    (c) The Administrator of General Services is 
                directed to initiate the process to amend the 
                regulations at title 41, parts 102-79 and 102-83, Code 
                of Federal Regulations, and to take any other steps 
                necessary in accordance with applicable law to conform 
                Federal office space management policy with this order.
                    (d) Agencies that acquire or utilize federally 
                owned or leased space under authority other than the 
                Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
                1949 (40 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), as amended, shall conform 
                to the provisions of this order to the extent 
                consistent with applicable law.

                Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person. 
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                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    April 15, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-06838
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