Reading Room Document

Paying for Removing Structures at the Treasure Lake Civilian Conservation Center

The interdepartmental-waiver doctrine, under which one agency generally may not pay to restore or repair property in the custody of another agency, prevents the Department of Labor from paying to remove structures at a defunct Job Corps site that is located within a wildlife refuge in the custody of the Department of Interior. No statutory authority has displaced that doctrine's applicability by authorizing the Department of Labor to pay for removing the structures. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/1356296/download.

February 22, 2019