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[CITE: 40USC751]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
               CHAPTER 16--GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 751. General Services Administration


(a) Establishment

    There is established an agency in the executive branch of the 
Government which shall be known as the General Services Administration.

(b) Administrator of General Services; appointment

    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) Deputy Administrator of General Services; appointment; duties

    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), (e) Omitted

(f) Authority to prescribe regulations

    The Administrator shall have authority to prescribe regulations to 
carry out this Act.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 101, 63 Stat. 379; Pub. L. 99-
500, Sec. 101(m) [title VIII, Sec. 832], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783-
308, 1783-345, and Pub. L. 99-591, Sec. 101(m) [title VIII, Sec. 832], 
Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341-308, 3341-345.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (f), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 
63 Stat. 377, as amended, known as the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949. For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 471 of this 
title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Pub. L. 99-591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99-500.
    Subsec. (d) of this section, which related to performance of 
functions until appointment of the Administrator, is omitted.
    Subsec. (e) of this section, which authorized the President to fix 
rates of compensation for the Administrator, the Deputy Administrator, 
and the heads and assistant heads of the principal organizations of the 
General Services Administration pending the effective date of other 
provisions of law fixing the rates of compensation of such officers, is 
omitted.
    Section was formerly classified to section 630 of Title 5 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378. 
Prior thereto, section was classified to section 211 of Title 41, Public 
Contracts.


                               Amendments

    1986--Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 99-500 and Pub. L. 99-591 added subsec. 
(f).


                             Effective Date

    Chapter effective July 1, 1949, see section 605 of act June 30, 
1949, set out as a note under section 471 of this title.


         Compensation of Administrator and Deputy Administrator

    Annual rate of basic compensation of Administrator and Deputy 
Administrator, see sections 5314 and 5315 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.


                               Definitions

    The definitions in section 472 of this title apply to this chapter.

                    Emergency Preparedness Functions

    For assignment of certain emergency preparedness functions to the 
Administrator of General Services, see Parts 1, 2, and 18 of Ex. Ord. 
No. 12656, Nov. 18, 1988, 53 F.R. 47491, set out as a note under section 
5195 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
