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[CITE: 10USC2539]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
 CHAPTER 148--NATIONAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL BASE, DEFENSE 
                  REINVESTMENT, AND DEFENSE CONVERSION
 
    SUBCHAPTER V--MISCELLANEOUS TECHNOLOGY BASE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 2539. Industrial mobilization: plants; lists

    (a) List of Plants Equipped to Manufacture Arms or Ammunition.--The 
Secretary of Defense may maintain a list of all privately owned plants 
in the United States, and the territories, Commonwealths, and 
possessions of the United States, that are equipped to manufacture for 
the armed forces arms or ammunition, or parts thereof, and may obtain 
complete information of the kinds of those products manufactured or 
capable of being manufactured by each of those plants, and of the 
equipment and capacity of each of those plants.
    (b) List of Plants Convertible Into Ammunition Factories.--The 
Secretary of Defense may maintain a list of privately owned plants in 
the United States, and the territories, Commonwealths, and possessions 
of the United States, that are capable of being readily transformed into 
factories for the manufacture of ammunition for the armed forces and 
that have a capacity sufficient to warrant conversion into ammunition 
plants in time of war or when war is imminent, and may obtain complete 
information as to the equipment of each of those plants.
    (c) Conversion Plans.--The Secretary of Defense may prepare 
comprehensive plans for converting each plant listed pursuant to 
subsection (b) into a factory for the manufacture of ammunition or parts 
thereof.

(Added Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 822(a)(1), Nov. 30, 
1993, 107 Stat. 1705.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
sections 4502(a)-(c) and 9502(a)-(c) of this title, prior to repeal by 
Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 822(a)(2).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2539a of this title.
