Regulations on Importation of Foreign Excess Property: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, June 23 and 25, 1959U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 - 259 pages |
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Page 83 - Except as otherwise provided in this contract, any dispute concerning a question of fact arising under this contract which is not disposed of by agreement shall be decided by the Contracting Officer, who shall reduce his decision to writing and mail or otherwise furnish a copy thereof to the Contractor.
Page 36 - excess property" means any property under the control of any Federal agency which is not required for its needs and the discharge of its responsibilities, as determined by the head thereof. (f ) The term "foreign excess property" means any excess property located outside the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. (g) The term 'surplus property...
Page 35 - ... but in no event shall any property be- sold without a condition forbidding its importation into the United States, unless the Secretary of Agriculture (in the case of any agricultural commodity, food, or cotton or woolen goods) or the Secretary of Commerce (in the case of any other property) determines that the importation of such property would relieve domestic shortages or otherwise be beneficial to the economy of this country...
Page 4 - Any executive agency designated or authorized by the Administrator to dispose of surplus property may do so by sale, exchange, lease, permit, or transfer, for cash, credit, or other property, with or without warranty, and upon such other terms and conditions as the...
Page 33 - If any person fraudulently or knowingly imports or brings into the United States, or assists in so doing, any merchandise, contrary to law, or receives, conceals, buys, sells, or in any manner facilitates the transportation, concealment, or sale of such merchandise after importation, knowing the same to have been imported or brought into the United States contrary to law, such merchandise shall be forfeited and the offender shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $5,000 nor less than $50, or be imprisoned...
Page 25 - President is authorized to control, in furtherance of world peace and the security and foreign policy of the United States...
Page 226 - Foreign excess property may be disposed of (a) by sale, exchange, lease, or transfer, for cash, credit, or other property, with or without warranty, and upon such other terms and conditions...
Page 83 - The decision of the Secretary or his duly authorized representative for the determination of such appeals shall be final and conclusive unless determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been fraudulent, or capricious, or arbitrary, or so grossly erroneous as necessarily to imply bad faith, or not supported by substantial evidence.
Page 85 - ... the taxpayer receives from the donee a written statement representing that its use and disposition of the property will be in accordance with the provisions of clauses...
Page 31 - There Is incorporated in and made a part of the 'bond No. dated , In the amount of $ , executed by , as principal, and , as surety, the following added condition: Whereas, the principal named in the said bond has been permitted, in accordance with § 401.6 of Foreign Excess Property Order No.