Negotiated Sale of an Unimproved Tract of Land

The legal opinion of the Comptroller General was requested concerning the legal aspects of a proposed negotiated sale of an unimproved tract of land at Porterville, California. The land has been declared excess by the Department of the Agriculture, and it is proposed to sell the land to the successful bidder for the construction of a building on the site to be leased to the Government as office and storage space for the Forest Service headquarters serving the Sequoia National Forest.