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PUBLIC LAW 560-AUG. 2, 1954

or claims which the United States might otherwise have or claim in and to the Association's capital, surplus, surplus reserves, and undistributed earnings, computed as of the close of the aforesaid cutoff date. "(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any institution, including a national bank or State member bank of the Federal Reserve System or any member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, trust company, or other banking organization, organized under any law of the United States, including the laws relating to the District of Columbia, shall be authorized to make payments to the Association of the nonrefundable capital contributions referred to in subsection (b) of this section, to receive stock of the Association evidencing such capital contributions, and to hold or dispose of such stock, subject to the provisions of this title. " (g) As promptly as practicable after all of the preferred stock of the Association held by the Secretary of the Treasury has been retired, the Housing and Home Finance Administrator shall transmit to the President for submission to the Congress recommendations for such legislation as may be necessary or desirable to make appropriate provisions to transfer to the owners of the outstanding common stock of the Association the assets and liabilities of the Association in connection with, and the control and management of, the secondary market operations of the Association under section 304 of this title in order that such operations may thereafter be carried out by a privately owned and privately financed corporation.

Legislation. Recommendation to President and Congress.

Infra.

SECONDARY MARKET OPERATIONS

"SEC. 304. (a) To carry out the purposes set forth in paragraph (a) of section 301, the operations of the Association under this section shall be confined, so far as practicable, to mortgages which are deemed by the Association to be of such quality, type, and class as to meet, generally, the purchase standards imposed by private institutional mortgage investors and the Association shall not purchase any mortgage insured or guaranteed prior to the effective date of the Housing Act of 1954. In the interest of assuring sound operation, the prices to be paid by the Association for mortgages purchased in its secondary market operations under this section, should be established, from time to time, at the market price for the particular class of mortgages involved, as determined by the Association. The volume of the Association's purchases and sales, and the establishment of the purchase prices, sale prices, and charges or fees, in its secondary market operations under this section, should be determined by the Association from time to time, and such determinations should be consistent with the objectives that such purchases and sales should be effected only at such prices and on such terms as will reasonably prevent excessive use of the Association's facilities, and that the operations of the Association under this section should be within its income derived from such operations and that such operations should be fully self-supporting. " (b) For the purposes of this section, the Association is authorized to issue, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and have outstanding at any one time obligations having such maturities and bearing such rate or rates of interest as may be determined by the Association with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be redeemable at the option of the Association before maturity in such manner as may be stipulated in such obligations; but the aggregate amount of obligations of the Association under this subsection outstanding at any one time shall not exceed ten times the sum of its capital, capital surplus, general surplus, reserves, and undis-

Ante, p. 612.

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