---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 3117"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "3117"
heading: "Exclusion of certain property by stipulation of Attorney General"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/3117"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
  - "Subchapter II — Acquiring Land"
---

# §3117. Exclusion of certain property by stipulation of Attorney General


In any condemnation proceeding brought by or on behalf of the Federal Government, the Attorney General may stipulate or agree on behalf of the Government to exclude any part of the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9), or any interest in the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9), taken by or on behalf of the Government by a declaration of taking or otherwise.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1147.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3117 | 40:258f. | Oct. 21, 1942, ch. 618, 56 Stat. 797. |

The words “that may have been, or may be” are omitted as unnecessary.