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 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 479-OCT. 3, 1944 so withheld to the extent necessary to meet any such deficiency actually found to exist by the War Production Board, at the market price of the respective minerals and metals. (c) Any Government-owned accumulations of strategic materials Ooverment-owned shall at the request of the War and Navy Departments be transferred by the owning agency, when determined to be surplus pursuant to this Act, to the account of the Treasury Procurement Division and shall be added to the stock pile authorized by the Act of June 7, 1939 (53 8o.s .ic. 0s 98 Stat. 811), as amended, and shall be subject to its provisions. The Form. materials may be transferred in any form in which they are held and they shall thereafter be put into forms best suited for storage and use for the common defense. The term "strategic materials" as rias8trategic mate- used in this subsection means all materials except strategic minerals and metals as defined in subsection (a) of this section and includes all materials in group A or in group B of the list of strategic and critical materials determined upon by the Army and Navy Munitions Board on March 6,1944, as amended from time to time, but shall not include Exdusions. any of such materials which the Army and Navy determine do not meet the specifications suitable for common defense or are in excess of the needs thereof. The Army and Navy Munitions Board is author- riasmol sto mate ized to direct the removal from the list of any of the materials as defined in this subsection, in which event they shall be disposed of under the provisions of this Act. (d) Within three months following the enactment of this Act the cO- -"t to Army and Navy Munitions Board shall submit to Congress its rec- g ommendations respecting the maximum and minimum amounts of each strategic mineral or metal which in its opinion should be held in the stock pile authorized by the Act of June 7, 1939. After one 50U. S.C . §9WM; year from the submission of such recommendations, unless the Con- Supp. III, e. gress provides otherwise by law, the Board may authorize the proper disposal agencies to dispose of any Government-owned accumulations of strategic minerals and metals including those owned by any Gov- ernment corporation when determined to be surplus pursuant to this Act. DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS REAL PROPERTI SEC. 23. (a) As used in this section- (1) The term "real property" means property consisting of land, together with any fixtures and improvements thereon, located outside of the District of Columbia, but does not include war housing, industrial plants, factories, or similar structures and facilities, or the sites thereof, or land which the Board deter- mines is essential to the use of any of the foregoing; and (2) The term "surplus real property" means real property which has been determined under section 11 to be surplus property. (b) Surplus real property which is not disposed of to Government agencies under section 12 or to States or their political subdivisions or instrumentalities under section 13 shall be disposed of in accord- ance with this section. (c) Immediately after the reporting of surplus real property to the Board under section 11, the Board shall classify such property as agricultural, grazing, forest, mineral, or otherwise, as it may deem advisable. The classification may be revised from time to time. (d) (1) (A) In the case of any surplus real property which was acquired by any Government agency after December 31, 1939, the person from whom such property was acquired shall be given notice, m such manner (which may include publication) as the Board by regulation may prescribe, that the property is to be disposed of by "Real property. " "Surplus real prop- Ante, p. 76. Property not dis- posed of to Oovern- ment, etc. Ante, p. 770. Classifications. Ante, p. 769. Repurchase rights of former owners, etc. 777 58 STAT.]

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