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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 480--OCT. 3, 1944 p fp h hi TITLE III-RETRAINING AND REEMPLOYMENT emtrapient and R SEC. 301. There is hereby established a Retraining and Reemploy- itaton, establish- ment Administration (hereinafter referred to as the "Administra- tion"), the functions of which, subject to the general supervision of the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, shall be exer- Adminrantor. cised by a Retraining and Reemployment Administrator (hereinafter Coansltations (2) establish policies providing for full and prompt con- sultation between the executive agencies, war contractors, and the representatives of the employees of war contractors with regard to obtaining the most effective use in other war production or in production for nonwar use of facilities and manpower to be released through anticipated curtailments in war production or terminations of war contracts. smaiplant partid- SEo. 204. (a) Whenever the expansion, resumption, or initiation of production for nonwar use is authorized, on a restricted basis, by any executive agency having control over manpower, production, or materials, the restrictions imposed shall not be such as to prevent any small plant capable and desirous of participating in such expansion, resumption, or initiation of production for nonwar use from so participating in such production. M^ralse by smal (b) Whenever such executive agency allocates available materials lants. for the production of any item or group of items for nonwar use, it shall make available a percentage of such materials for the exclusive use by small plants for the production of such item or group of items. Such percentage shall be determined by the head of such agency after giving full consideration to the claims presented by the chairman of the board of directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation and shall be fair and equitable. conditnngfiactrs (c) In allocating the materials thus set aside among such small plants, such executive agency shall establish criteria, standards, quotas, schedules, or other conditioning factors after consultation with the chairman of the board of directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. Such executive agency shall allocate such mate- rials directly to such small plants and shall, to the fullest extent prac- ticable, provide for making such allocations through local offices easily "small plant." accessible to such small plants. For the purposes of this title, a small plant means any small business concern engaged primarily in pro- duction or manufacturing either employing two hundred and fifty wage earners or less, or coming within such other categories as may be established by the head of such executive agency in consultation with the chairman of the board of directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. Such other categories shall be defined by taking into consideration the comparative sizes of establishments in a par- ticular industry as reflected by sales volumes, quantities of materials consumed, capital investments, or by other criteria which are reason- ably attributable to small plants rather than medium or large size plants. sresa by Attor. SEO. 205. The Attorney General is directed to make surveys for the purpose of determining any factors which may tend to eliminate com- petition, create or strengthen monopolies, injure small business, or otherwise promote undue concentration of economic power in the course of war mobilization and during the period of transition from Report toCoress. war to peace and thereafter. The Attorney General shall submit to the Congress within ninety days after the approval of this Act, and at such times thereafter as he deems desirable, reports setting forth the results of such surveys and including recommendations for such legislation as he may deem necessary or desirable. [58 STAT. I

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