---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8723"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8723"
heading: "Capital improvements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8723"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 87 — Physical Development of National Capital Region"
  - "Subchapter III — Planning Process"
---

# §8723. Capital improvements

- (a) **Six-Year Program of Public Works Projects.—** The [National Capital](/usc/40/8702.md?p=2) Planning [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) shall recommend a six-year program of [public works](/usc/40/3501.md?p=2) projects for the [Federal Government](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a) which the [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) shall review annually with the agencies concerned. Each [federal agency](/usc/40/3301.md?p=a-4) shall submit to the [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) in the first quarter of each fiscal year a copy of its advance program of capital improvements within the [National Capital](/usc/40/8702.md?p=2) and its [environs](/usc/40/8702.md?p=1).
- (b) **Submission of Multiyear Capital Improvement Plan.—** By February 1 of each year, the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit to the [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) a copy of the multiyear capital improvements plan for the District of Columbia that the Mayor develops under section 444 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law 93–198, 87 Stat. 800). The [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) has 30 days in which to comment on the plan but may not change or disapprove of the plan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1223.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8723 | 40:71f. | June 6, 1924, ch. 270, § 7, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, § 1, 66 Stat. 789; Pub. L. 93–198, title II, § 203(f), Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 782. |

In subsection (b), the words “District of Columbia Home Rule Act” are substituted for “District of Columbia of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act” because of section 11717(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat. 786).

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 444 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is section 444 of Pub. L. 93–198, title IV, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 800, which is not classified to the Code.