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STAT.]

Public Law 522

PUBLIC LAW

522-JULY

12, 1952

593 CHAPTER 703

AN ACT To amend further the Federal Property and Adminig;rative Services Act of 1949, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), as amended (Public Law 754, Eighty-first Congress), is hereby further amended as follows: (a) By inserting after "domain" in section 3(d) "(including lands withdrawn or reserved from the public domain which the Administrator, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, determines are suitable for return to the public domain for disposition under the general public land laws because such lands are not substantially changed in character by improvements)". (b) By inserting after "obligated" in section 3(k) "or has the option". (c) By deleting "and" before "such sums" in the second sentence of section 109(a) and by inserting after "thereto", in this sentence "and the value, as determined by the Administrator, of inventories of personal property from time to time transferred to the Administrator by other executive agencies under authority of section 201(a)(2) to the extent that payment is not made or credit allowed therefor,". (d) By deleting the figure "$75,000,000" in the third sentence of section 109(a) and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "$150,000,000". (e) By deleting the proviso in section 109(f). (f) By revising section 202(a) so as to read: " (a) I n order to minimize expenditures for property, the Administrator shall prescribe policies and methods to promote the maximum utilization of excess property by executive agencies, and he shall provide for the transfer of excess property among Federal agencies and to the organizations specified in section 109(f). The Administrator, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, shall prescribe the extent of reimbursement for such transfers of excess property: Provided, That reimbursement shall be required of the fair value, as determined by the Administrator, of any excess property transferred whenever net proceeds are requested pursuant to section 204(b) or whenever either the transferor or the transferee agency (or the organizational unit affected) is subject to the Government Corporation Control Act (59 Stat. 597, 31 U.S.C. 841) or is an organization specified in section 109(f); and that excess property determined by the Administrator to be suitable for distribution through the supply centers of the General Services Administration shall be retransferred as prices fixed by the Administrator with due regard to prices established in accordance with section 109(b). " (g) By revising section 202(c)(2) so as to read: "(2) transfer excess property under its control to other Federal agencies and to organizations specified in section 109(f), and". (h) By repealing sections 202(d), 202 (e), 202 (f), and 309 (b). (i) By striking from section 203(e) the words "December 31, 1950" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "June 30, 1953: Provided, That an explanatory statement shall be prepared and submitted to the appropriate committees of Congress and a copy preserved in the file of all cases where negotiated disposal occurs." (j) By striking "transferred, and that" in section 203(k)(2) (iii) and substituting therefor "transferred, or that". (k) By inserting after "system" in section 206(b) "and standardized forms and procedures".

July y2, 1952 [H. R. 5350]

64 Stat. 578. 40 USC 471 note. 40 USC 472.

40 USC 472.

5 USC 630g.

40 USC 481.

5 USC 630g. 40 USC 483.

40 USC 485.

40 USC 483; 4 I u s e 259. 40 USC 484. Report to e o tigress.

40 USC 487.

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