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PUBLIC LAW 91-426-SEPT. 26, 1970

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Public Law 91-426 AN ACT

September 26, 1970

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the rotation of certain property whenever its remaining storage or shelf life is too short to justify its retention, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 201 of Federal excess the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 '"Medi'/ai sup.. U.S.C. 481) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new pues, etc, transsubsection: _ _ '^63yaT.''38T* " (e) Whenever the head of any executive agency determines that 72 Stat. 936. the remaining storage or shelf life of any medical materials or medical supplies held by such agency for national emergency purposes is of too short duration to justify their continued retention for such purposes and that their transfer or disposal would be in the interest of the United States, such materials or supplies shall be considered for the purposes of section 202 of this Act to be excess property. In accordance with the ee Stat. 593. regulations of the Administrator, such excess materials or supplies '*° ^^^ '^^^' may thereupon be transferred to or exchanged with any other Federal agency for other medical materials or supplies. Any proceeds derived from such transfers may be credited to the current applicable appropriation or fund of the transferor agency and shall be available only for the purchase of medical materials or supplies to be held for national emergency purposes. If such materials or supplies are not transferred to or exchanged with any other Federal agency, they shall be disposed of as surplus property. To the greatest extent practicable, the head of the executive agency holding such medical materials or supplies shall make the determination provided for in the first sentence of this subsection at such times as to insure that such medical materials or medical supplies can be transferred or otherwise disposed of in sufficient time to permit their use before their shelf life expires and they are rendered unfit for human use." SEC. 2. Section 402 of the Federal Property and Administrative J°J^/^" excess Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 512), is amended by— ^"^esStat. 393. (a) inserting, immediately after the section number "SEC. 402.", the subsection aesignation (a) "; (b) inserting after the words "Foreign excess property" in the first sentence thereof the words "not disposed of under subsections (b) and (c) of this section"; (c) striking out in the first sentence thereof the clause designations " (a) " and " (b) ", and inserting in lieu thereof the clause designations " (1) " and " (2) ", respectively; and (d) adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: Donation to " (b) Any executive agency having in any foreign country any o°^an°2ati^ns!''^^ medical materials or supplies not disposed of under subsection (c) of this section, which, if situated within the United States, would be available for donation pursuant to section 203 of this Act, may donate '*° ^sc 484. such materials or supplies without cost (except for costs of care and handling), for use m any foreign country, to nonprofit medical or health organizations, including those qualified to receive assistance under sections 214(b) and 607 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2174(b) and 2357). "s Stat. 428, ^

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