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PUBLIC LAW 8 9 - 7 5 8 - N O V. 5, 1966

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(b) JSTo claim cognizable under the provisions of this Act shall be assigned or transferred, except to the United States. SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Army shall require assignment to the United States of any right of action against a third party arising from the death, or personal injury claim with respect to which settlement is made. SEC. 8. The Secretary shall, within two years and six months after ^ ^^^^gV° the date of enactment of this Act, transmit to the Congress a report °"^'^^^^setting forth— (1) each claim settled by him and paid pursuant to the provisions of this Act, with a brief statement concerning the character and equity of each such claim, the amount claimed, and the amount approved and jDaid; and (2) each claim submitted to him in accordance with the provisions of this Act which has not been settled by him, with supporting papers and a statement of his findings of facts and recommendations with respect to each such claim. SEC. 9. Attorney and agent fees shall be paid out of the awards hereunder. No attorney or agent on account of services rendered in connection with each claim shall receive in excess of 20 per centum of the amount paid, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Whoever violates the provisions of this Act shall be fined a sum not violations. to exceed $1,000. SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the claims referred to in this Act in the amounts approved for payment by the Secretary of the Army or his designee and the administrative costs of the investigation and settlement of claims under this Act. The authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of awards so fixed and determined shall terminate three years from the effective date of this Act. Approved November 5, 1966.

Public Law 89-758 AN ACT

November 5, 1966

To permit the sale of grain storage facilities to public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations.

[H. R. 12360]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4(h) fa^mtres!"'^^^^ of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, as amended, is saie. amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the follow- ^^ ^g*- ]^l^' i n g: ": Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, where a grain storage facility owned by the Corporation is not needed by the Corporation and, upon being offered for sale no person offers to pay the minimum price set by the Corporation for such facility for use in connection with storage or handling of agricultural commodities, then the Corporation may, without declaring such facility to be excess property, sell it by bids at not less than such minimum price to any public or private nonprofit agency or organization for use for the purposes of such agency or organization. This provision shall apply also to facilities which on the effective date of this Act have been declared excess to the needs of the Commodity Credit Corporation but have not been claimed by any other Government agency, or surplus to the needs of the Government but not disposed of pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. " stat- 3 77. 40 USC 471 note. Approved November 5, 1966.

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