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[CITE: 41USC105]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--TERMINATION OF WAR CONTRACTS
 
Sec. 105. Contract Settlement Advisory Board; composition; 
        duties
        
    There is created a Contract Settlement Advisory Board, with which 
the Administrator of General Services shall advise and consult. The 
Board shall be composed of the Administrator of General Services who 
shall act as its Chairman, and of the Secretary of the Army, the 
Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of 
State, the chairman of the board of directors of the Reconstruction 
Finance Corporation, Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General or 
any alternate or representative designated by any of them. The 
Administrator of General Services shall request other Government 
agencies to participate in the deliberations of the Board whenever 
matters specially affecting them are under consideration.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 358, Sec. 5, 58 Stat. 651; Ex. Ord. No. 9630, Sec. 1, 
eff. Sept. 27, 1945, 10 F.R. 12245; Ex. Ord. No. 9638, Sec. 1, eff. Oct. 
4, 1945, 10 F.R. 12591; Ex. Ord. No. 9665, Sec. 2, eff. Dec. 27, 1945, 
10 F.R. 15365; Ex. Ord. No. 9730, Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 1946, 11 F.R. 
5777; Ex. Ord. No. 9809, Sec. 8, eff. Dec. 12, 1946, 11 F.R. 14281; Ex. 
Ord. No. 9841, Secs. 101, 203, eff. Apr. 23, 1947, 12 F.R. 2645; 1947 
Reorg. Plan No. 1, Sec. 201, eff. July 1, 1947, 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 
951; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501; June 
30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 102(b), 63 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 97-31, 
Sec. 12(17), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 154.)


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-31 substituted ``Secretary of Transportation'' for 
``Chairman of the Maritime Commission''.

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 
1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, 
Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of 
the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Contract Settlement Advisory Board and all its property, records, 
etc., transferred to General Services Administration by section 102(b) 
of act June 20, 1949, which is classified to section 752(b) of Title 40, 
Public Buildings, Property, and Works, but was to retain and perform its 
functions.
    Functions of Secretary of the Treasury transferred to Administrator 
of General Services by section 102(b) of act June 30, 1949, which is 
classified to section 752(b) of Title 40.
    Contract Settlement Advisory Board transferred to Department of the 
Treasury by section 8 of Ex. Ord. No. 9809 and section 201 of Reorg. 
Plan No. 1 of 1947. Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1947 is set out in the Appendix 
to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
    In text of this section, references to ``Director'' changed to 
``Secretary of the Treasury'' and phrase ``the Secretary of the 
Treasury'' following reference to Secretary of the Navy was omitted by 
section 8 of Ex. Ord. No. 9809, and section 201 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 
1947.
    Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration changed to 
Secretary of State in view of Ex. Ord. No. 9630, as amended by Ex. Ord. 
No. 9730.
    ``Secretary of Commerce'' substituted for references to Chairman of 
War Production Board and chairman and board of directors of Smaller War 
Plants Corporation. War Production Board functions transferred to 
Civilian Production Administration, to Office of Temporary Controls, and 
then to Secretary of Commerce by Ex. Ord. Nos. 9638, 9809, and 9481, 
respectively. Functions of chairman and Board of Directors of Smaller 
War Plants Corporation transferred to Secretary of Commerce by Ex. Ord. 
No. 9665.

                 Effective Date of Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, as effective July 1, 
1949, see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as an Effective Date 
note under section 471 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and 
Works.

                       Secretary of the Air Force

    For transfer of certain procurement and related functions and 
property, insofar as they pertain to the Air Force, from Secretary of 
the Army and Department of the Army, to Secretary of the Air Force and 
Department of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 
6, eff. Jan. 15, 1948.

             Abolition of Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1957, Sec. 6(a), eff. June 30, 1957, 22 F.R. 
4633, 71 Stat. 647, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, abolished Reconstruction Finance 
Corporation.


                     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 title 40 section 752.
