§ 439. — Operation of Governmentowned alcohol plants; location; transfer of plants.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC439]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 17--MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
Sec. 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.
(July 2, 1948, ch. 818, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 1234.)
References in Text
The Surplus Property Act of 1944, referred to in text, is act Oct.
3, 1944, ch. 479, 58 Stat. 765, which was classified principally to
sections 1611 to 1646 of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense,
and was repealed effective July 1, 1949, with the exception of sections
1622, 1631, 1637, and 1641 of Title 50, Appendix, by act June 30, 1949,
ch. 288, title VI, Sec. 602(a)(1), 63 Stat. 399, renumbered Sept. 5,
1950, ch. 849, Sec. 6(a), (b), 64 Stat. 583. Sections 1622 and 1641 were
partially repealed by the 1949 act, and section 1622 is still set out in
part in Title 50, Appendix. Section 1622(g) was repealed and reenacted
as sections 47151 to 47153 of Title 49, Transportation, by Pub. L. 103-
272, Secs. 1(e), 7(b), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1278-1280, 1379. Section
1631 was repealed by act June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 6(e), as added by
act July 23, 1946, ch. 590, 60 Stat. 599, and is covered by sections 98
et seq. of Title 50. Section 1637 was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch.
645, Sec. 21, 62 Stat. 862, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, and is covered by
section 3287 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Provisions of
section 1641 not repealed by the 1949 act were repealed by Pub. L. 87-
256, Sec. 111(a)(1), Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 538, and are covered by
chapter 33 (Sec. 2451 et seq.) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and
Intercourse. The provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944
originally repealed by the 1949 act are covered by provisions of the
1949 act which were classified to chapter 10 (Sec. 471 et seq.) of
former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and which were
repealed and reenacted by Pub. L. 107-217, Secs. 1, 6(b), Aug. 21, 2002,
116 Stat. 1062, 1304, as chapters 1 to 11 of Title 40, Public Buildings,
Property, and Works.
Transfer of Functions
Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of
Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18
F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this
title.
Functions, property, records, etc., of War Assets Administration
transferred to Administrator of General Services and War Assets
Administration abolished by act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I,
Sec. 105, 63 Stat. 381.
Abolition of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Section 6(a) of 1957 Reorg. Plan No. 1, eff. June 30, 1957, 22 F.R.
4633, 71 Stat. 647, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 439a, 439b, 439c, 439e of
this title.
