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PUBLIC LAW 9—MAR. 23, 1951

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(b) SBCRETART.—The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of General Services, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Governor of the Canal Zone, the president of the Panama Canal Company, the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, and the head of any other agency of the Government which the President shall designate pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. (c) BOARD.—The term "Board" means the Renegotiation Board created by section lOT (a) of this Act. •^"* • ^^• (d) RENEGOTIATE AND RENEGOTIATION.—The terms "renegotiate" and "renegotiation" include a determination by agreement or order under this title of the amount of any excessive profits. (e) EXCESSIVE PROFITS.—The term "excessive profits" means the portion of the profits derived from contracts with the Departments and subcontracts which is determined in accordance with this title to be excessive. In determining excessive profits favorable recognition must be given to the efficiency of the contractor or subcontractor, with particular regard to attainment of quantity and quality production, reduction of costs, and economy in the use of materials, facilities, and manpower; and in addition, there shall be taken into consideration the following factors: (1) Reasonableness of costs and profits, with particular regard to volume of production, normal earnings, and comparison of war and peacetime products; (2) The net worth, with particular regard to the amount and source of public and private capital employed; (3) Extent of risk assumed, including the risk incident to reasonable pricing policies; (4) Nature and extent of contribution to the defense effort, including inventive and developmental contribution and cooperation with the Government and other contactors in supplying technical assistance; (5) Character of business, including source and nature of materials, complexity of manufacturing technique, character and extent of subcontracting, and rate of turn-over; (6) Such other factors the consideration of which the public interest and fair and equitable dealing may require, which factors shall be published in the regulations of the Board from time to time as adopted. (f) PROFITS DERIVED FROM CONTRACTS W I T H THE DEPARTMENTS AND

SUBCONTRACTS.—The term "profits derived from contracts with the Departments and subcontrects" means the excess of the amount received or accrued under such contracts and subcontracts over the costs paid or incurred with respect thereto and determined to be allocable thereto. All items estimated to be allowed as deductions and exclusions under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code (excluding 26U^s;c.§!«<««?.; taxes measured by income) shall, to the extent allocable to such con- sup. iv, isetseq. tracts and subcontracts, be allowed as items of cost, except that no amount shall be allowed as an item of cost by reason of the application of a carry-over or carry-back. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, there shall be allowed as an item of cost in any fiscal year, subject to regulations of the Board, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of costs (computed without the application of this sentence) paid or incurred in the preceding fiscal year with respect to receipts or accruals subject to the provisions of this title over the

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