The Ariel Rios Federal Building, situated in the

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neighborhood of

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, is the headquarters of the United States

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(ATF) at 99 New York Avenue, NE. The building was completed in 2008, and in 2016 was named after Ariel Rios, an ATF

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who was killed in action in 1982. An earlier bill was introduced in

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proposing the building be named after

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. The name was previously used for the ATF's old headquarters at 1200

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, NW, which now houses the

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headquarters and has been renamed the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building.

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