Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 7 : Section 439


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/03/05
Section 439. Operation of Government-owned alcohol plants; location; transfer of plants

      For the purpose of assuring their operation for the production of
    products from agricultural commodities in order to provide a means
    of discharging the responsibility of the Department of Agriculture
    in connection with surplus agricultural commodities, research, and
    other authorized activities, and to assist in providing an adequate
    supply of alcohol and other products produced from agricultural
    commodities necessary for the national defense, (1) the
    Reconstruction Finance Corporation, as successor to Defense Plant
    Corporation, shall transfer, without regard to the provisions of
    the Surplus Property Act of 1944 and without reimbursement or
    transfer of funds, to the Secretary of Agriculture all of its
    right, title, and interest in and to the alcohol plant established
    and constructed by Defense Plant Corporation at Muscatine, Iowa,
    the property, together with the equipment, records, facilities, and
    other property appurtenant thereto; and (2) the War Assets
    Administration shall transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture
    without regard to the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of
    1944 and without reimbursement or transfer of funds the alcohol
    plants at Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska, together with
    the land, equipment, facilities, and other property appurtenant
    thereto.



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