1. FEDERAL PROPERTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS Title VII-Property Transferred from the Reconstruction Finance Transfer of affairs of Bureau of Federal Supply. Transfer of affairs of the Federal Works Agency. Records management: Transfer of the National Ar- Transfer for liquidation of the Affairs of the War Redistribution of functions. Transfer of funds. Status of transferred employees. [Repealed.] Federal telecommunications fund.1 Automatic data processing equipment.2 TITLE II-PROPERTY MANAGEMENT *Citations to amendments and footnotes appear after the com- Sec. 401. Sec. 601. Sec. 602. Sec. 603. Sec. 604. Sec. 605. TITLE IV-FOREIGN EXCESS PROPERTY Disposal of foreign excess property. TITLE V-FEDERAL RECORDS TITLE VI-GENERAL PROVISIONS Applicability of existing procedures. Authorization for appropriations and transfer of au thority. Separability. Effective date. TITLE VII-PROPERTY TRANSFERRED FROM THE Sec. 902. Sec. 904. Definitions. Policy. Requests for Data on Architectural and Engineering Negotiation of Contracts for Architectural and Engi- DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Congress in enacting 40 U.S.C. 471 this legislation to provide for the Government an economical and efficient system for (a) the procurement and supply of personal property and nonpersonal services, including related functions such as contracting, inspection, storage, issue, specifications, property identification and classification, transportation and traffic management, establishment of pools or systems for transportation of Government personnel and property by motor vehicle within specific areas, management of public utility services, repairing and converting, establishment of inventory levels, establishment of forms and procedures, and representation before Federal and State regulatory bodies; (b) the utilization of available property; (c) the disposal of surplus property; and (d) records management. DEFINITIONS SEC. 3. As used in titles I through VI of this Act(a) The term "executive agency" means any executive department or independent establishment in the 40 U.S.C. 472 executive branch of the Government, including any wholly owned Government corporation. (b) The term "Federal agency" means any executive agency or any establishment in the legislative or judicial branch of the Government (except the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol and any activities under his direction). (c) The term "Administrator" means the Administrator of General Services provided for in title I hereof. (d) The term "property" means any interest in property except (1) the public domain; lands reserved or dedicated for national forest or national park purposes; minerals in lands or portions of lands withdrawn or reserved from the public domain which the Secretary of the Interior determines are suitable for disposition under the public land mining and mineral leasing laws; and lands withdrawn or reserved from the public domain except lands or portions of lands so withdrawn or reserved which the Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the Administrator, determines are not suitable for return to the public domain for disposition under the general public-land laws because such lands are substantially changed in character by improvements or otherwise; (2) naval vessels of the following categories: Battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines; and (3) records of the Federal Government. (e) The term "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 States of the Union, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands. (g) The term "surplus property" means any excess property not required for the needs and the discharge of the responsibilities of all Federal agencies, as determined by the Administrator. (h) The term "care and handling" includes completing, repairing, converting, rehabilitating, operating, preserving, protecting, insuring, packing, storing, handling, conserving, and transporting excess and surplus property, and, in the case of property which is dangerous to public health or safety, destroying or rendering innocuous such property. (i) The term "person" includes any corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, or other entity. (j) The term "nonpersonal services" means such contractual services, other than personal and professional services, as the Administrator shall designate. (k) The term "contractor inventory" means (1) any property acquired by and in the possession of a contractor or subcontractor under a contract pursuant to the terms of which title is vested in the Government, and in excess of the amounts needed to complete full performance under the entire contract; and (2) any property which the Government is obligated or has the option to take over under any type of contract as a result either of any changes in the specifications or plans thereunder or of the termination of such contract (or subcontract thereunder), prior to completion of the work, for the convenience or at the option of the Government. (1) The term "motor vehicle" means any vehicle, self propelled or drawn by mechanical power, designed and operated principally for highway transportation of property or passengers, exclusive of any vehicle designed or used for military field training, combat, or tractical purposes, or used principally within the confines of a regularly established military post, camp, or depot, and any vehicle regularly used by an agency in the performance of investigative, law enforcement, or intelligence duties if the head of such agency determines that exclusive control of such vehicle is essential to the effective performance of such duties. TITLE I-ORGANIZATION GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION SEC. 101. (a) There is hereby established an agency in 40 U.S.C. 751 the executive branch of the Government which shall be known as the General Services Administration. (b) There shall be at the head of the General Services Administration an Administrator of General Services who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and perform his functions subject to the direction and control of the President. (c) There shall be in the General Services Administration a Deputy Administrator of General Services who shall be appointed by the Administrator of General Services. The Deputy Administrator shall perform such functions as the Administrator shall designate and shall be Acting Administrator of General Services during the absence or disability of the Administrator and, unless the President shall designate another officer of the Government, in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator. (d) Pending the first appointment of the Administra- (Not in Code) tor under the provisions of this section, his functions shall be performed temporarily by such officer of the Government in office upon or immediately prior to the taking effect of the provision of this Act as the President shall designate, and such officer while so serving shall receive the salary fixed for the Administrator. (e) Pending the effective date of other provisions of (Not in Code) law fixing the rates of compensation of the Administrator, the Deputy Administrator and of the heads and |