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[CITE: 40USC752]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
               CHAPTER 16--GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 752. Transfer of functions


(a) Bureau of Federal Supply

    The functions of (1) the Bureau of Federal Supply in the Department 
of the Treasury, (2) the Director of the Bureau of Federal Supply, (3) 
the personnel of such Bureau, and (4) the Secretary of the Treasury, 
relating to the Bureau of Federal Supply, are transferred to the 
Administrator. The records property, personnel, obligations, and 
commitments of the Bureau of Federal Supply, together with such 
additional records, property, and personnel of the Department of the 
Treasury as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
determine to relate primarily to functions transferred by this section 
or vested in the Administrator by titles II, III, and VI, of this Act, 
are hereby transferred to the General Service Administration. The Bureau 
of Federal Supply and the office of Director of the Bureau of Federal 
Supply are abolished.

(b) Office of Contract Settlement

    The functions of the Director of Contract Settlement and of the 
Office of Contract Settlement, transferred to the Secretary of the 
Treasury by Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1947, are transferred to 
the Administrator and shall be performed by him or, subject to his 
direction and control, by such officers and agencies of the General 
Services Administration as he may designate. The Contract Settlement Act 
Advisory Board created by section 105 of title 41 and the Appeal Board 
established under section 113(d) of title 41 are transferred from the 
Department of the Treasury to the General Services Administration, but 
the functions of these Boards shall be performed by them, respectively, 
under conditions and limitations prescribed by law. There shall also be 
transferred to the General Services Administration such records, 
property, personnel, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances 
(available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and 
other funds of the Treasury Department as the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall determine to relate primarily to the 
functions transferred by the provisions of this subsection.

(c) Retention by Treasury Department of certain functions of Bureau of 
        Federal Supply

    Any other provision of this section notwithstanding, there may be 
retained in the Department of the Treasury any function referred to in 
subsection (a) of this section which the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall, within ten days after July 1, 1949, 
determine to be essential to the orderly administration of the affairs 
of the agencies of such Department, other than the Bureau of Federal 
Supply, together with such records, property, personnel, obligations, 
commitments, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and 
other funds, available or to be made available, of said Department, as 
said Director shall determine.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 102, 63 Stat. 380; Sept. 5, 1950, 
ch. 849, Sec. 6(a), 64 Stat. 583; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 102, eff. 
July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), 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, including titles II, III, and VI thereof, to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 471 of this title and Tables.
    Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1947, referred to in subsec. (b), 
is Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1947, 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 951, which is set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 630a 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 212 of Title 41, Public 
Contracts.


                               Amendments

    1950--Subsec. (a). Act Sept. 5, 1950, substituted reference to title 
VI for reference to title V.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions vested 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.


                               Definitions

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


                     Termination of Advisory Boards

    Advisory boards in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later 
than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, 
in the case of a board established by the President or an officer of the 
Federal Government, such board is renewed by appropriate action prior to 
the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a board 
established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. 
See sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, 
776 set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 756 of this title.
