An Act to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 so as to improve the administration of the program for the utilization of surplus property for educational and public health purposes
PL 84-61 (H.R.3322), enacted 06/03/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 61-JUNE 3, 1955 
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Public Law 60 
CHAPTER 129 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of April 29, 1941, to authorize the waiving of the requirement 
of performance and payment bonds in connection with certain Coast Guard 
contracts. 
June 3, 1955 
[H. R. 3885] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Home of Repreffsntatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhied, That the Act of 
April 29, 1&41, 55 Stat. 147 (40 U. S. C. 270e), is hereby amended to 
read as follows: "The Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the 
Navy, the Secretary of the Air I orce, or the Secretary of the Treasury 
may waive the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 793), with respect to 
cost-plus-a-fixed fee and other cost-type contracts for the construction, 
alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the 
United States and with respect to contracts for the manufacturing, 
producing, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing, or 
assembling of vessels, aircraft, munitions, materiel, or supplies of any 
kind or nature for the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard, 
respectively, regardless of the terms of such contracts as to payment or 
title." 
Approved June 3, 1955. 
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Public Law 61 
CHAPTER 130 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 so as 
to improve the administration of the program for the utilization of surplus 
property for educational and public health purposes. 
June 3, 1955 
[H. R. 3322] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) paragraph 
(1) of subsection (j) of section 203 of the Federal Property and 
A(lministrative Services Act of 1949 is amended (1) by inserting after 
"other supplies" the following: "(whether or not capitalized in a 
working-capital or similar fund)", and (2) by adding at the end 
thereof the following: "In determining whether or not property is to 
be donated under this subsection, no distinction shall be made between 
property capitalized in a working-capital fund established pursuant 
to section 405 of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, or 
any similar fund, and any other property." 
(b) Paragraph (2) of section 203 (j) of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 is amended by inserting at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "No property shall be trans-
ferred (except surplus property donated in conformity with paragraph 
(3) of this subsection), until the Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare has received from an appropriate State agency or official a 
certification that such property is usable and needed for educational or 
public health purposes in the State, and no property shall be trans-
ferred pursuant to this paragraph until the Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare has determined that such agency or official has 
conformed to minimum standards of operation prescribed by the 
Secretary for the disposal of surplus property." 
SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (j) of section 203 of the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following new paragraph: 
"(4) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may impose 
reasonable terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions- upon the 
use of any single item of property donated under paragraph (2) of this 
subsection which has an acquisition cost of $2,500 or more." 
Federal Property 
and Administrative 
S e r v i c e s Act of 
1949( amendment. 
64 Stat. 579. 
40 u s e 484. 
63 Stat. 587. 
5 u s e 172d. 
R e s triction on 
property transferal. 
R e s t r i c t ions, 
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on u s e of 
property.