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 62 STAT.] 80rH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 810, 811 -JULY 2,1948 possible, surplus property, and may recommend to the Commission the repair or construction under the provisions of section 304, at any time prior to July 1, 1950, of buildings deemed essential to the rehabilitation of public health and quarantine functions." SEC. 3 . Section 311 of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946 is amended by adding thereto a subsection numbered (f) and reading as follows: " (f) Any Filipino who has commenced training or instruction prior to June 30, 1950, as provided in this Act, shall, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, be entitled, insofar as facilities are avail- able, to receive the full course of training or instruction as prescribed by the head of the bureau or agency concerned, and funds appropri- ated under the authority of this Act shall be available for such training or instruction. The number of trainees to be trained each year, as prescribed by the several sections of this Act, refers to the number of trainees who may be designated each year by the President of the Philippines and not to the total number of trainees receiving training or instruction in any one year." Approved July 2, 1948. [CHAPTER 811] AN ACT 1225 60 Stat. 136. 50U.S.C.app. § 1784. 60 Stat. 139. 50U.S.C.app. § 1791. Training period. Number of trainees. July 2, 1948 To promote the common defense by providing for the retention and maintenance JS. 255,94 of a national reserve of industrial productive capacity, and for other purposes. [Public Law 8S31 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2 . In enacting this Act, it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive and continuous program for the future safety and for the defense of the United States by providing adequate measures whereby an essential nucleus of Government-owned industrial plants and a national reserve of machine tools and industrial manufacturing equipment may be assured for immedliate use to supply the needs of the armed forces in time of national emergency or in anticipation thereof; it is further the intent of the Congress that such Government-owned plants and such reserve shall not exceed in number or kind the mini- mum requirements for immediate use in time of national emergency, and that any such items which shall become surplus to such require- ments shall be disposed of as expeditiously as possible. DEFINITIONS SEC. 3. (a) The term "national industrial reserve", as used herein, means that excess industrial property which has been or may here- after be sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of by the United States, subject to a national security clause, and that excess industrial property of the United States which not having been sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of, subject to a national security clause, shall be transferred to the Federal Works Agency under section 5 hereof. (b) The term "excess industrial property," as used herein, means any machine tool, any industrial manufacturing equipment and any industrial plant (including structures on land owned by or leased to the United States, substantially equipped with machinery, tools, and equipment) which is capable of economic operation as a separate and independent industrial unit and which is not an integral part of an installation of a private contractor, which machine tools, industrial manufacturing equipment, and industrial plants are under the control National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948. "National indus. trial reserve." Post, p. 1226. "Excess industrial property."

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