An Act to- amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the sale Of grain storage facilities to public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations
PL 89-758 (H.R.12360), enacted 11/05/1966

80 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-758-NOV. 5, 1966 
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o claim cognizable under the provisions of this Act shall be 
assigned or transferred, except to the United States. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Army shall require assignment to the 
United States of any right of action against a third party arising from 
the death, or personal injury claim with respect to which settlement is 
made. 
SEC. 8. The Secretary shall, within two years and six months after ^ ^^^^gV° 
the date of enactment of this Act, transmit to the Congress a report 
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setting forth— 
(1) each claim settled by him and paid pursuant to the provi-
sions of this Act, with a brief statement concerning the character 
and equity of each such claim, the amount claimed, and the amount 
approved and jDaid; and 
(2) each claim submitted to him in accordance with the provi-
sions of this Act which has not been settled by him, with support-
ing papers and a statement of his findings of facts and recom-
mendations with respect to each such claim. 
SEC. 9. Attorney and agent fees shall be paid out of the awards 
hereunder. 
No attorney or agent on account of services rendered in 
connection with each claim shall receive in excess of 20 per centum of 
the amount paid, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Whoever violates the provisions of this Act shall be fined a sum not 
violations. 
to exceed $1,000. 
SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay out of moneys in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the claims referred to in this 
Act in the amounts approved for payment by the Secretary of the 
Army or his designee and the administrative costs of the investigation 
and settlement of claims under this Act. 
The authority of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to make payment of awards so fixed and deter-
mined shall terminate three years from the effective date of this Act. 
Approved November 5, 1966. 
Public Law 89-758 
AN A C T 
November 5, 1966 
To permit the sale of grain storage facilities to public and private nonprofit 
[H. R. 12360] 
agencies and organizations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4(h) fa^mtres!"'^^^^ 
of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, as amended, is 
saie. 
amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the follow- 
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ing: ": Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
where a grain storage facility owned by the Corporation is not needed 
by the Corporation and, upon being offered for sale no person offers 
to pay the minimum price set by the Corporation for such facility for 
use in connection with storage or handling of agricultural commodi-
ties, then the Corporation may, without declaring such facility to be 
excess property, sell it by bids at not less than such minimum price to 
any public or private nonprofit agency or organization for use for the 
purposes of such agency or organization. 
This provision shall apply 
also to facilities which on the effective date of this Act have been 
declared excess to the needs of the Commodity Credit Corporation but 
have not been claimed by any other Government agency, or surplus 
to the needs of the Government but not disposed of pursuant to the 
provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949, as amended. 
" stat- 3 77. 
Approved November 5, 1966. 
40 use 471 note.