# Expenses, Disposal of Surplus Real and Related Personal Property

**Agency:** GSA  
**Account:** GSA Mandatory Budget Authority  
**Source document:** General Services Administration · p. 15  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/gsa/expenses-disposal-of-surplus-real-and-related-personal-property  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 3.7 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 10.9 |
| FY2027 | request | 10.9 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## GSA discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $400.0M, FY2026 $-300.0M. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Expenses, Disposal of Surplus Real and Related Personal Property This mandatory appropriation provides for the efficient disposal of real property assets that no longer meet the needs of landholding Federal agencies. The following costs are paid through receipts from such disposals each fiscal year: fees of auctioneers, brokers, appraisers, and environmental consultants; surveying costs; costs of advertising; costs of environmental and historical preservation services; highest and best use of property studies; property utilization studies; deed compliance inspections; and other disposal costs. GSA leverages the expertise of auctioneers and brokers familiar with local markets to accelerate the disposal of surplus real The Expenses, Disposal of Surplus Real and Related Personal Property appropriation is permanently authorized by 40 U.S.C. ' 572(a). The appropriation is authorized to pay expenses directly or to reimburse another account for expenses paid. The total amount paid and reimbursed in a fiscal year may not exceed 12 percent of the receipts available in GSA's Expenses, Disposal of Surplus Real and Related Personal Property receipt account. Proceeds from the disposal of Federal real property are deposited into GSA's Expenses, Disposal of Surplus Real and Related Personal Property receipt account, and funds deemed in excess of the Real Property Disposal program's longterm requirements must be transferred to the Land and Water Conservation Fund in accordance with 54 U.S.C. ' 200302. The types of expenses that may be paid or reimbursed are limited to specific, enumerated (i) Fees of appraisers, auctioneers, and realty brokers, in accordance with the scale (ii) Costs of environmental and historic preservation services, highest and best use of property studies, utilization of property studies, deed compliance inspections, targeted asset reviews, and the expenses incurred in approved relocations. FY 2026 Operating Plan and FY 2027 Budget Estimate The FY 2027 budget request provides $10.9 million for GSA's Real Property Disposal program. Obligations are based on properties planned for disposal in each year. Financing is provided through receipts from sales of surplus property and outleasing of Government-owned space. Note: In accordance with 54 U.S.C. ' 200302, any receipts in excess of the long-term requirements of the Fund must be transferred out of the Fund established by 40 U.S.C. ' 572(a) and deposited into the U.S. Department of the Interior's Land and Water Conservation Fund. Sec. 520. Funds available to the General This provision authorizes GSA to use funds Services Administration shall be available for for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. the hire of passenger motor vehicles. Sec. 521. Funds in the Federal Buildings This provision authorizes GSA to transfer Fund made available for fiscal year 2027 for funds within the Federal Buildings Fund Federal Buildings Fund activities may be (FBF) to meet program requirements. transferred between such activities only to the requirements: Provided, That notice of any advance to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Sec. 522. Except as otherwise provided in This provision requires that the budget this title, any request for United States request meet certain design and construction Courthouse construction transmitted using standards for Federal Courthouse funds made available by this Act shall be construction. used to transmit an fiscal year 2027 request only if the request: (1) meets the design guide standards for construction as established and Administration, the Judicial Conference of the United States, and the Office of Management and Budget; (2) reflects the priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States as Priorities plan; and (3) includes a each facility to be constructed, replaced, or Sec. 523. None of the funds provided in this This provision provides that no funds may be Act may be used to increase the amount of used to increase the amount of occupiable service usually provided through the Federal usually provided, to any agency that does Buildings Fund, to any agency that does not not pay the requested rate assessed by the pay the rate per square foot assessment for General Services Administration. space and services as determined by the Amendments Act of 1972 (Public Law 92- Sec. 524. From funds made available under This provision permits GSA to pay small the heading "Federal Buildings Fund, claims less than $250,000 made against the Limitations on Availability of Revenue", claims Government. against the Government of less than projects and acquisition of buildings may be construction projects with prior notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Sec. 525. With respect to the Federal This provision requires GSA to submit Buildings Fund's construction and major spending plans for the Federal Buildings repair and alteration programs, and with Fund's New Construction and Acquisition respect to projects funded under the heading program; the Federal Buildings Fund's Major "Federal Citizen Services Fund", the Repair and Alteration program; and the Administrator of General Services shall Federal Citizen Service Fund. submit a spending plan and explanation for each project to be undertaken to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of Sec. 526. For fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal This provision directs both the Congressional year thereafter, the following amounts shall Budget Office and the Office of Management be subtracted from the estimate of and Budget to subtract new Budget Authority discretionary budget authority and resulting and Outlays from their application of outlays for any estimate of an Act making full- legislative scoring guidelines for the FBF, as year or continuing appropriations for Financial well as collections deposited into the FBF. Services and General Government Programs This scoring adjustment would apply only to under the Congressional Budget and funds annually deposited into the FBF and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 or the used to support


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › GSA › General Services Administration › GSA Mandatory Budget Authority › Expenses, Disposal of Surplus Real and Related Personal Property


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*