An Act to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to permit the rotation of certain property whenever its remaining storage or shelf life is too short to justify its retention, and for other purposes
PL 91-426 (S.406), enacted 09/26/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-426-SEPT. 26, 1970 
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Public Law 91-426 
AN A C T 
September 26, 1970 
To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to 
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permit the rotation of certain property whenever its remaining storage or 
shelf life is too short to justify its retention, and for other purposes. 
Federal excess 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 201 of 
the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 '"^Medi'/ai sup.. 
U.S.C. 481) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new pues, etc, trans-
subsection: 
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" (e) Whenever the head of any executive agency determines that 72 stat. 936. 
the remaining storage or shelf life of any medical materials or medical 
supplies held by such agency for national emergency purposes is of too 
short duration to justify their continued retention for such purposes 
and that their transfer or disposal would be in the interest of the United 
States, such materials or supplies shall be considered for the purposes 
of section 202 of this Act to be excess property. In accordance with the 
ee stat. 593. 
regulations of the Administrator, such excess materials or supplies 
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may thereupon be transferred to or exchanged with any other Federal 
agency for other medical materials or supplies. Any proceeds derived 
from such transfers may be credited to the current applicable appro-
priation or fund of the transferor agency and shall be available only 
for the purchase of medical materials or supplies to be held for 
national emergency purposes. If such materials or supplies are not 
transferred to or exchanged with any other Federal agency, they shall 
be disposed of as surplus property. To the greatest extent j)racticable, 
the head of the executive agency holding such medical materials or sup-
plies shall make the determination provided for in the first sentence of 
this subsection at such times as to insure that such medical materials or 
medical supplies can be transferred or otherwise disposed of in suffi-
cient time to permit their use before their shelf life expires and they 
are rendered unfit for human use." 
SEC. 2. Section 402 of the Federal Property and Administrative J°J^/^" excess 
Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 512), is amended by— 
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(a) inserting, immediately after the section number "SEC. 402.", 
the subsection aesignation (a)"; 
(b) inserting after the words "Foreign excess property" in the 
first sentence thereof the words "not disposed of under subsec-
tions (b) and (c) of this section"; 
(c) striking out in the first sentence thereof the clause designa-
tions " ( a ) " and "(b)", and inserting in lieu thereof the clause 
designations "(1)" and "(2)", respectively; and 
(d) adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: Donation to 
"(b) Any executive agency having in any foreign country any o°^an°2ati^ns!''^^ 
medical materials or supplies not disposed of under subsection (c) of 
this section, which, if situated within the United States, would be 
available for donation pursuant to section 203 of this Act, may donate 
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such materials or supplies without cost (except for costs of care and 
handling), for use m any foreign country, to nonprofit medical or 
health organizations, including those qualified to receive assistance 
under sections 214(b) and 607 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
as amended (22 U.S.C. 2174(b) and 2357). 
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441; 80 stat. 798; 
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Return to U.S. 
as surplus prop-
erty. 
63 Stat. 384; 
66 Stat. 593; 
70 Stat, 493; 
69 Stat. 430. 
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"(c) Under sucli regulations as the Administrator shall prescribe 
pursuant to this subsection, any foreign excess property may be 
returned to the United States for handling as excess or surplus prop-
erty under the provisions of sections 202, 203(j), and 203(1) of this 
Act whenever the head of the executive agency concerned determines 
that it is in the interest of the United States to do so: Provided^ That 
regulations prescribed pursuant to this subsection shall require that 
the transportation costs incident to such return shall be borne by the 
Federal agency, State agency, or donee receiving the property." 
Approved September 26, 1970. 
September 26, 1970 
[S. 3153] 
Public Law 91-427 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Set-retaries of Interior and the Smithsonian Institution to 
expend certain sums, in cooperation with the territory of Guam, the terri-
tory of American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, other 
United States territories in the Pacific Ocean, and the State of Hawaii, for 
the conservation of their protective and productive {X)iral reefs. 
Pacific islands, 
coral reefs, con-
servation. 
Seastar "Crown 
of Thorns", 
investigation and 
Control. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^semhled^ That, for the pur-
pose of conserving and protecting coral reef resources of the tropical 
islands of interest and concern to the United States in the Pacific and 
safeguarding critical island areas from possible erosion and to safe-
guard future recreational and esthetic uses of Pacific coral reefs, the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion are authorized to cooperate with and provide assistance to the 
governments of the State of Hawaii, the territories and possessions of 
the United States, including Guam and American Samoa^ the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands, and other island possessions of the 
Ignited States, in the study and control of the seastar "Crown of 
Thorns'' (Acanthaster planci). 
SEC. 2. In carrying out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution are author-
ized to— 
(1) conduct such studies, research, and investigations, as they 
deem desirable to determine the causes of the population increase 
of the "Crown of Thorns", their effects on corals and coral reefs, 
and the stability and regeneration of reefs following predation; 
(2) to monitor areas where the "Crown of Thorns'" may be 
increasing in numbers and to determine future needs for control; 
(3) to develop improved methods of control and to carry out 
programs of control in areas where these are deemed necessary; 
and 
(4) to take such other actions as deemed desirable to gain an 
understanding of the ecology and control of the seastar "(^rown 
of Thorns". 
SEC. 3. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, 
there is authorized to be appropriated for the period commencing on 
the date of its enactment and ending June 30, 1975, not to exceed 
$4,5'0<),0<)0. 
Approved September 26, 1970.