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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS. - CHS. 433-435-JUNE 10, 1948 "(B) may contain such additional terms, reservations, restric- tions, and conditions as may be determined by the Administrator to be necessary to safeguard the interests of the United States." SEC. 2. Section 13 (f) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(f) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the disposal of surplus property under this section to States and political subdivisions and instrumentalities thereof shall be given priority over all other disposals of property provided for in this Act except (1) transfers to Government agencies under section 12 of this Act, as amended, and (2) disposals to veterans under section 16 of this Act, as amended. Disposals of real property to States, political subdivisions, and instru- mentalities thereof for any of the purposes specified in section 13 (a) (1) (A), section 13 (a) (1) (B), section 13 (c), section 13 (d), sec- tion 13 (e), section 13 (g), or section 13 (h) of such Act, as amended, shall be given priority over all other disposals of property provided for in this Act except transfers to Government agencies under section 12 of this Act, as amended. The Administrator may prescribe a reason- able time during which any such priority shall be exercised." SEC. 3. Section 18 (e) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, is hereby repealed. Approved June 10, 1948. [CHAPTER 434] AN ACT To amend the Civil Service Act to remove certain discrimination with respect to the appointment of persons having any physical handicap to positions in the classified civil service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States", as amended (22 Stat. 403), is amended by adding at the end of para- graph "Second" the following new subparagraph: "Ninth, that no person shall be discriminated against in any case because of any physical handicap, in examination, appointment, reappointment, reinstatement, reemployment, promotion, transfer, retransfer, demotion, or removal, with respect to any position the duties of which, in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission, may be efficiently performed by a person with such a physical handicap: And provided further, That such employment will not be hazardous to the appointee or endanger the health or safety of his fellow employees or others." Approved June 10, 1948. [CHAPTER 435] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to have made by the Public Roads Administration and the National Park Service a joint reconnaissance survey of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Great Falls, Maryland, and Cum- berland, Maryland, and to report to the Congress upon the advisability and practicability of constructing thereon a parkway, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be expended from the appropriations made to the National Park Service for parkways the sum of $40,000 for the pur- pose of making a joint reconnaissance study by the Public Roads Administration and the National Park Service of the federally owned Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Great Falls, Maryland, 351 58 Stat. 772. 50U.S.C.app. 1622 (f). Priority. 58 Stat. 770, 773. 50U.S.C.app. §§ 1621, 1625. 58 Stat. 774. 50U.S.C.app. § 1627 (e). June 10, 1948 [H. R. 4236] [Public Law 6171 Civil Service Act, amendment. 5 U.S.C. 633. Nondlscrim inatlon of persons physically handeiapped. June 10, 1948 [H. R. 5155] [Public Law 618] Chesapeake and 3hio Canal, Md. Appropriation a- thorized. 4 1

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