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[75 Stat. 445]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1961
[75 Stat. 445]

75

STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 8 7 - 1 9 5 - S E P T. 4, 1961

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means of implementing and carrying into effect the policy of the preceding sentence, the President is authorized to establish and maintain a total embargo upon all trade between the United States and Cuba. (b) No assistance shall be furnished under this Act to the government of any country unless the President determines that such country is not dominated or controlled by the international Communist movement. (c) No assistance shall be provided under this Act to the government of any country which is indebted to any United States citizen for goods or services furnished, where such citizen has exhausted available legal remedies and the debt is not denied or contested by such government. (d) No assistance shall be furnished under section 201 of this Act for construction or operation of any productive enterprise in any country where such enterprise will compete with United States enterprise unless such country has agreed that it will establish appropriate procedures to prevent the exportation for use or consumption m the United States of more than twenty per centum of the annual production of such facility during the life of the loan. I n case of failure to implement such agreement by the other contracting party, the President is authorized to establish necessary import controls to effectuate the agreement. The restrictions imposed by or pursuant to this subsection may be waived by the President where he determines that such waiver is in the national security interest. CHAPTER 2—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

621. EXERCISE OF FUNCTIONS.— (a) The President may exercise any functions conferred upon him by this Act through such agency or officer of the United States Government as he shall direct. The head of any such agency or such officer may from time to time promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out such functions, and may delegate authority to perform any such functions, including, if he shall so specify, the authority successively to redelegate any of such functions to any of his subordinates. I n providing technical assistance under this Act in the field of education, health, housing, or agriculture, or in other fields, the head of any such agency or such officer shall utilize, to the fullest extent practicable, the facilities and resources of the Federal agency or agencies with primary responsibilities for domestic programs in such fields. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 642(a), the corporate entity known as the Development Loan Fund, the International Cooperation Administration, and the Office of the Inspector General and Comptroller shall continue in existence for a period not to exceed sixty days after the effective date of this Act, unless sooner abolished by the President. There shall continue to be available to each such agency and office during such period the respective functions, offices, personnel, property, records, funds, and assets which were available thereto on the date prior to the effective date of this Act. (c) On the date of the abolition of the corporate entity known as the Development Loan Fund, the President shall designate an officer or head of an agency of the United States Government carrying out functions under part I to whom shall be transferred, and who shall accept the assets of, assume the obligations and liabilities of, and exercise the rights established or acquired for the benefit of, or with respect to, the Fund as of the date of abolition and not otherwise disposed of by this Act. In addition, on such date the President shall designate such SEC.

Rule 8 and regulations.

Abolition of certain a g e n c i e s.

Development Loan Fund.