Draft appropriations bill would restart plans for new FBI headquarters – By Jessie Bur (Federal Times) / Oct 19 2021
Plans to construct a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the Washington, D.C. suburbs may soon be back on track with congressional oversight, as senators on the Senate Appropriations Committee announced Oct. 19 that the forthcoming financial services and general government appropriations bill would require Congress to be kept apace of progress.
Since 2011, government reports have shown that the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which serves as the current FBI headquarters, did not meet the agency’s security needs and was falling into disrepair.
In 2014, the General Services Administration announced three sites in Maryland and Virginia as finalists for constructing a new headquarters, after which the old building would be demolished and the land sold to private developers. Congress signed off on some funding for this plan.
But in 2017, the Trump administration announced that they were scrapping the plan to relocate and would instead rebuild a new headquarters on the same site as the old building.
