---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a), 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.