Prodded by a key U.S. senator, federal agencies have agreed to provide Congress, within 120 days, with a Plan B for providing a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Senate Environment and Public and Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) elicited the pledge from General Services Administration and FBI officials at the end of an Aug. 2 hearing focused on why the agencies cancelled a $1.6-billion-plus plan, years in the works, to build a new FBI headquarters in the Washington, D.C., suburbs via a swap with a developer.