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107 STAT. 1704 PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 Subtitle C—Provisions to Revise and Consolidate Certain Defense Acquisition Laws SEC. 821. REPEAL AND AMENDMENT OF OBSOLETE, REDUNDANT, OR OTHERWISE UNNECESSARY LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GENERALLY. (a) REPEALS.—The following provisions of law are repealed: (1) Chapter 135 of title 10, United States Code (relating to encouragement of aviation). (2) Section 2317 of title 10, United States Code (relating to encouragement of competition and cost savings). (3) Section 2362 of title 10, United States Code (relating to testing requirements for wheeled or tracked vehicles). (4) Section 2389 of title 10, United States Code (relating to purchases from the Commodity Credit Corporation and price adjustments for contracts for procurement of milk). (5) Sections 2436 and 2437 of title 10, United States Code (relating to defense enterprise programs). (6) Section 821 of Public Law 101-189 (103 Stat. 1503) (relating to certificate of independent price determination in certain Department of Defense contract solicitations). (b) DELETION OF EXPIRING REPORT REQUIREMENT.— Effective February 1, 1994, section 2361 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking out subsection (c). SEC. 822. EXTENSION TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GENERALLY OF CERTAIN ACQUISITION LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE ARMY AND AIR FORCE. (a) INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION.—(1) Subchapter V of chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new sections:

  • '§2538. Industrial mobilization: orders; priorities; possession of manufacturing plants; violations

"(a) ORDERING AUTHORITY.— In time of war or when war is imminent, the President, through the Secretary of Defense, may order from any person or organized manufacturing industry necessary products or materials of the type usually produced or capable of being produced by that person or industry. "(b) COMPLIANCE WITH ORDER REQUIRED. — A person or industry with whom an order is placed under subsection (a), or the responsible head thereof, shall comply with that order and give it precedence over all orders not placed under that subsection. "(c) SEIZURE OF MANUFACTURING PLANTS UPON NONCOMPLI- ANCE.—In time of war or when war is imminent, the President, through the Secretary of Defense, ma^ take immediate possession of any plant that is equipped to manumcture, or that in the opinion of the Secretary of Defense is capable of being readily transformed into a plant for manufacturing, arms or ammunition, parts thereof, or necessary supplies for the armed forces if the person or industry owning or operating the plant, or the responsible head thereof, refuses— "(1) to give precedence to the order as prescribed in subsection (b);