COLUMBIA, S.C. AP – The U.S. Department of Justice is relocating part of its U.S. attorney operations from Washington to South Carolina as part of a 20-year lease agreement with the state’s flagship university, officials announced Monday.

The federal agency will be relocating its Executive Office for United States Attorneys to the building that now houses the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden said during a news conference in Columbia.