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[CITE: 42USC1592n]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
        CHAPTER 9--HOUSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
  SUBCHAPTER IX--DEFENSE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES
 
Sec. 1592n. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter, the following terms shall have the 
meanings respectively ascribed to them below, and, unless the context 
clearly indicates otherwise, shall include the plural as well as the 
singular number:
    (a) ``State'' shall mean the several States, the District of 
Columbia, and Territories, and possessions of the United States.
    (b) ``Federal agency'' shall mean any executive department or 
officer (including the President), independent establishment, 
commission, board, bureau, division, or office in the executive branch 
of the United States Government, or other agency of the United States, 
including corporations in which the United States owns all or a majority 
of the stock, directly or indirectly.
    (c) ``Community facility'' shall mean waterworks, sewers, sewage, 
garbage and refuse disposal facilities, police and fire protection 
facilities, public sanitary facilities, works for treatment and 
purification of water, libraries, hospitals and other places for the 
care of the sick, recreational facilities, streets and roads, and day-
care centers.
    (d) ``Community service'' shall mean the maintenance and operation 
of facilities for health, refuse disposal, sewage treatment, recreation, 
water purification, and day-care centers, and the provision of fire-
protection.
    (e) ``National defense'' shall mean (1) the operations and 
activities of the armed forces, the Atomic Energy Commission, or any 
other Government department or agency directly or indirectly and 
substantially concerned with the national defense, (2) other operations 
and activities directly or indirectly and substantially concerned with 
the operations and activities of the armed forces and the Atomic Energy 
Commission, (3) activities in connection with the Mutual Defense 
Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, or (4) the provision of community 
facilities or services necessary to the health, safety, or public 
welfare of the inhabitants of a town or community which has been 
relocated as a result of the acquisition (through eminent domain or 
purchase in lieu thereof) of its former site by or on behalf of the 
Atomic Energy Commission for national-defense activities.
    (f) ``Nonprofit agency'' shall mean any agency no part of the net 
earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or 
individual.
    (g) ``Project'' shall mean housing or community facilities acquired, 
developed, or constructed with financial assistance pursuant to this 
subchapter.
    (h) ``Veteran'' shall mean a person, or the family of a person, who 
has served in the active military or naval service of the United States 
at any time (i) on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to July 26, 
1947, (ii) on or after April 6, 1917, and prior to November 11, 1918, or 
(iii) on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date thereafter as 
shall be determined by the President, and who shall have been discharged 
or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable or who 
shall be still serving therein. The term shall also include the family 
of a person who served in the active military or naval service of the 
United States within any such period and who shall have died of causes 
determined by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to have been service-
connected.

(Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, title III, Sec. 315, 65 Stat. 309; June 30, 
1953, ch. 170, Sec. 18, 67 Stat. 126; Pub. L. 102-54, Sec. 13(q)(7)(B), 
June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 281.)

                       References in Text

    The Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. 
(e), is act Oct. 6, 1949, ch. 626, 63 Stat. 714, as amended, which was 
classified generally to chapter 20 (Sec. 1571 et seq.) of Title 22, 
Foreign Relations and Intercourse, prior to its repeal by act Aug. 26, 
1954, ch. 937, title V, Sec. 542(a)(5), (9) to (11), 68 Stat. 861. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.


                               Amendments

    1991--Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 102-54 substituted ``Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs'' for ``Veterans' Administration''.
    1953--Subsec. (e)(4). Act June 30, 1953, added cl. (4).

                          Transfer of Functions

    Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by 
sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See, also, Transfer of Functions 
notes set out under those sections.
