Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/988

 90 STAT. 2456

40 USC 483c.

Repeal. 42 USC 3193. Transfer of personnel, records, etc. 40 USC 484c.

PUBLIC LAW 94-519—OCT. 17, 1976 "whenever the head of the executive agency concerned determines that it is in the interest of the United States to do so" and inserting in lieu thereof ", whenever the head of the executive agency concerned, or the Administrator after consultation with such agency head, determines that return of the property to the United States for such handling is in the interest of the United States". SEC. 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as the Administrator of General Services may otherwise provide on recommendation of the head of an affected Federal agency, excess personal property acquired by a Federal agency pursuant to the authority of section 202 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 483) and furnished to and held by a grantee of such agency prior to the effective date of this Act (as provided in section 9(b)) under g r a n t s made pursuant to programs established by law shall be regarded as surplus property. The Administrator of General Services upon receipt of a certification by the head of an agency that the property is being used by the grantee for the purposes for which it was furnished shall transfer title to the property to the grantee. The grantor agency shall survey Federal property acquired from excess sources in the possession of its grantees and shall notify the Administrator of General Services, not later than two hundred and forty days from the date of enactment of this Act, of those items of property which are being used by each grantee for the purpose for which it was furnished, and those items which are not being used by each grantee. If the property is not being so used, the Administrator shall transfer such property to an appropriate State agency, upon its request, for distribution in accordance with subsection 203(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 4 8 4 (j)). Property not so transferred shall be otherwise disposed of pursuant to the provisions of that Act.". SEC. 6. Section 514 of the Public W o r k s and Economic Development Act of 1965 (88 Stat. 1162) is repealed. SEC. 7. (a) So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, allocations, and other funds as are, in the judgment of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in relation to those personal property functions which the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare was authorized to perform under section 203 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 484) immediately prior to the date of enactment of this Act and which under this Act become vested in the Administrator of General Services shall be transferred to the General Services Administration at such time or times as the Director shall direct. (b) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget deems necessary to effectuate transfers referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be carried out in such manner as the Director shall direct. SEC. 8. Title VI of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 is amended by adding after section 605 the following new section: "SEX DISCRIMINATION

40 USC 476.

" SEC. 606. No individual shall on the ground of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity carried on or receiving Federal assistance under this Act. This provision shall be enforced through agency provisions and rules similar to those already estab-

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