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Reports to Congress.

Trailers.

PUBLIC LAW 7 6 6 - S E P T. 1, 1954

Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, amendments, 40 USC 471. Motor v e h i c l e pools.

40 USC 491.

D e terminations by Administrator.

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Department of Defense may utilize appropriations otherwise available for the payment of quarters allowances for military personnel. The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a quarterly report, the first of which shall be submitted three months subsequent to the date of enactment *of this Act, setting forth the cost, number, and location of housing units constructed or acquired pursuant to the authority contained in this section during the three-month period preceding the date of such report, and setting forth the cost, number, and location of the housing units intended to be constructed or acquired pursuant to such authority during the next succeeding quarter. SEC. 408. The Secretaries of the military departments are authorized to acquire a total of not to exceed five thousand units of trailers which may be made available at locations both inside and outside continental United States for occupancy by military personnel and their dependents on a rental basis without loss of any allowances for quarters. Approved September 1, 1954. Public Law 766

September 1, 1954 [H. R. 8753]

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CHAPTER 1211 AN ACT

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to establish and operate motor vehicle pools and systems and to provide office furniture and furnishinj?s when agencies are moved to new locations, to direct the Administrator to report the unauthorized use of Government motor vehicles, and to authorize the United States Civil Service Commission to regulate operators of Government-owned motor vehicles, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 378), is amended by adding after the comma following the words "traffic management" the following: "establishment of pools or systems for transportation of Government personnel and property by motor vehicle within specific areas,". SEC. 2. The text of section 211 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as added by the Act of September 5, 1950 (64 Stat. 583), is amended to read as follows: " (a) In order to carry out the policy, expressed in section 2 of this Act, to provide for an economical and efficient system for transportation of Government personnel and property, it is further intended by the Congress in enacting this section to (1) provide for the proper identification of Government motor vehicles; (2) establish effective means of limiting their use to official governmental purposes; (3) reduce the number of Government-owned vehicles to the minimum necessary for transaction of the public business; (4) provide wherever practicable for centrally operated interagency pools or systems for local transportation of Government personnel and property; and (5) establish procedures to insure safe operation of motor vehicles on Government Dusiness. " (b) Subject to regulations issued by the President pursuant to subsection (c), the Administrator shall in respect of executive agencies, and to the extent that he determines that so doing is advantageous to the Government in terms of economy, efficiency, or service, after consultation with and with due regard to the program activities of the agencies concerned, (1) consolidate, take over, acquire, or arrange for the operation by any executive agency of, motor vehicles and other related equipment and supplies for the purpose of establishing motor vehicle pools and systems to serve the needs of executive agencies; and

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