Word: gsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Services Administration (GSA), which controls the national archives and will own and operate the Kennedy Library after its construction, was charged with administering the study. The agency spent six months defining the scope of the study and held competitive bidding for a $200,000 contract to conduct the study...
...February 1974, the GSA selected C.E. Maguire Inc., a Waltham engineering firm, to prepare the report. The government gave Maguire 120 days to study environmental and socio-economic effects of the library, as well as to consider alternate sites for the complex in Watertown, Charlestown and Waltham...
...prepared for the organized community opposition to the project that had formed since its proposal in 1964. Community leaders--including representatives of the Harvard Square Development Task Force, Neighborhood Ten, and three city councilors--held a press conference questioning the firm's integrity and calling upon the GSA to review its contract...
...GSA review concluded that Maguire's omission of environmental findings was "poor" and "at odds with current trends...
Lawless also dismissed as unimportant any inconsistencies in the report. "The GSA is referring to the inconsistencies between the draft and final report, and there will always be differences between them," he said...