Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 116 Part 2.djvu/355

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PUBLIC LAW 107-217—AUG. 21, 2002 116 STAT. 1137 § 1307. Disposition of securities The President, or an officer, agent, or agency the President may designate, may dispose of any securities acquired on behgdf of the Federal Government under the provisions of the Transportation Act of 1920 (ch. 91, 41 Stat. 456), including any securities acquired as an incident to a case under title 11, under a receivership or reorganization proceeding, by assignment, transfer, substitution, or issuance, or by acquisition of collateral given for the payment of obligations to the Government, or may make arrangements for the extension of the maturity of the securities, in the manner, in amounts, at prices, for cash, securities, or other property or any combination of cash, securities, or other property, and on terms and conditions the President or designee considers advisable and in the public interest. § 1308. Disposition of unfit horses and mules Subject to applicable regulations under this subtitle and title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 251 et seq.), horses and mules belonging to the Federal Government that have become unfit for service may be destroyed or put out to pasture, either on pastures belonging to the Government or those belonging to financially sound and reputable humane organizations whose facilities permit them to care for the horses and mules during the remainder of their natural lives, at no cost to the Government. § 1309. Preservation, sale, or collection of wrecked, abandoned, or derelict property The Administrator of General Services may make contracts and provisions for the preservation, sale, or collection of property, or the proceeds of property, which may have been wrecked, been abandoned, or become derelict, if the Administrator considers the contracts and provisions to be in the interest of the Federal Government and the property is within the jurisdiction of the United States and should come to the Government. A contract may provide compensation the Administrator considers just and reasonable to any person who gives information about the property or actually preserves, collects, surrenders, or pays over the property. Under each specific agreement for obtaining, preserving, collecting, or receiving property or making property available, the costs or claim chargeable to the Government may not exceed aimounts reeilized and received by the Government. § 1310. Sale of war supplies, land, and buildings (a) IN GENERAL.— The President, through the head of any executive department and on terms the head of the department considers expedient, may sell to a person, another department of the FedersJ Government, or the government of a foreign country engaged in war against a country with which the United States is at war— (1) war supplies, material, and equipment; (2) by-products of the war supplies, material, and equipment; and (3) any building, plant, or factory, including the land on which the plant or factory may be situated, acquired since April 6, 1917, for the production of war supplies, materials, and equipment that, during the emergency existing on July