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receipts or accruals which bears the same ratio to the total of such receipts or accruals as five years bears to the average useful life of such equipment as set forth in Bulletin F of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1942 edition) or, if an average useful life is not so set forth, then as estimated by the Board. (2) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this subsection— (A) the term "durable productive equipment" means machinery, tools, or other equipment which does not become a part of an end product acquired by any agency of the Government under a contract with a department, or of an article incorporated therein, and which has an average useful life of more than five years; and (B) the term "subcontracts for new durable productive equipment" does not include subcontracts where the purchaser of such durable productive equipment has acquired such equipment for the account of the Government, but includes pool orders and siiriilar commitments placed in the first instance by a Department or other agency of the Government when title to the equipment is transferred on delivery thereof or within one year thereafter to a contractor or subcontractor. (d) PERMISSIVE EXEMPTIONS.—The Board is authorized, in its discretion, to exempt from some or all of the provisions of this title— (1) any contract or subcontract to be performed outside of the territorial limits of the continental United States or in Alaska; (2) any contracts or subcontracts under which, in the opinion of the Board, the profits can be determined with reasonable certainty when the contract price is established, such as certain classes of (A) agreements for personal services or for the purchase of real property, perishable goods, or commodities the minimum price for the sale of which has been fixed by a public regulatory body, (B) leases and license agreements, and (C) agreements where the period of performance under such contract or subcontract will not be in excess of thirty days. (3) any contract or subcontract or performance thereunder during a specified period or periods if, in the opinion of the Board, the provisions of the contract are otherwise adequate to prevent excessive profits; (4) any contract or subcontract the renegotiation of which would jeopardize secrecy required in the public interest; (5) any subcontract or group of subcontracts not otherwise exempt from the provisions of this section, if, in the opinion of the Board, it is not administratively feasible in the case of such subcontract or in the case of such group of subcontracts to determine and segregate the profits attributable to such subcontract or group of subcontracts from the profits attributable to activities not subject to renegotiation. The Board may so exempt contracts and subcontracts both individually and by general classes or types. SEC. 107. RENEGOTIATION BOARD. (a) CREATION OF BOARD.—There is hereby created, as an inde-

pendent establishment in the executive branch of the Government, a Renegotiation Board to be composed of five members to be appointed b^^ the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, respectively, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense, and the Administrator of General Services shall each recommend to the President, for his consideration, one person from civilian life to serve as a member of the Board. The President shall, at the time of appointment, designate one member to serve as Chairman. The Chairman

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