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[CITE: 40USC514]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
       CHAPTER 10--MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
 
                 SUBCHAPTER III--FOREIGN EXCESS PROPERTY
 
Sec. 514. General provisions


(a) Promulgation of policies

    The President may prescribe such policies, not inconsistent with the 
provisions of this subchapter, as he shall deem necessary to effectuate 
the provisions of this subchapter, which provisions shall guide each 
executive agency in carrying out its functions hereunder.

(b) Delegation of authority

    Any authority conferred upon any executive agency or the head 
thereof by the provisions of this subchapter may be delegated, and 
successive redelegation thereof may be authorized, by such head to any 
official in such agency or to the head of any other executive agency.

(c) Employment of personnel

    The head of each executive agency responsible for the disposal of 
foreign excess property hereunder may, as may be necessary to carry out 
his functions under this subchapter, (1) subject to the civil-service 
and classification laws, appoint and fix the compensation of personnel, 
and (2) without regard to the civil-service laws, appoint personnel 
outside the States of the Union and the District of Columbia.

(d) Transfer of functions

    There shall be transferred from the Department of State to each 
other executive agency affected by this subchapter such records, 
property, personnel, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances 
of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, available or to be made 
available, as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
determine to relate to functions of such agency under this subchapter 
which have heretofore been administered by the Department of State.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title IV, Sec. 404, 63 Stat. 398; Pub. L. 86-
624, Sec. 27(c), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 418; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, 
Sec. 102, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085; Pub. L. 96-
470, title I, Sec. 101(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2237.)

                       References in Text

    The civil-service laws, referred to in subsec. (c), are set forth in 
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, 
section 3301 et seq. of Title 5.
    The classification laws, referred to in subsec. (c), are classified 
generally to chapter 51 (Sec. 5101 et seq.) and to subchapter III 
(Sec. 5331 et seq.) of chapter 53 of Title 5.

                          Codification

    Provisions of subsec. (c)(2) of this section, which authorized heads 
of executive agencies to fix the compensation of personnel outside the 
continental limits of the United States without regard to the 
classification laws, were omitted as obsolete and superseded. Sections 
1202 and 1204 of the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, 
repealed the Classification Act of 1923 and all other laws or parts of 
laws inconsistent with the 1949 Act. The Classification Act of 1949 was 
repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, Sec. 8(a), 80 Stat. 632, and 
reenacted as chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. Section 5102 of Title 5 contains 
the applicability provisions of the 1949 Act, and section 5103 of Title 
5 authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to determine the 
applicability to specific positions and employees.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 96-470 struck out subsec. (d) which 
provided that head of each executive agency responsible for disposal of 
foreign excess property under this subchapter submit a report to 
Congress in January of each year, or at such other desirable times, 
relative to its activities under this subchapter, accompanied by 
appropriate recommendations, and redesignated subsec. (e) as (d).
    1960--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 86-624 substituted ``States of the Union 
and the District of Columbia'' for ``continental limits of the United 
States''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the 
Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President of 
the United States by section 101 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 
1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees. Section 102 of Reorg. Plan No. 
2 of 1970, redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and 
Budget.
