7 U.S.C. § 439 : US Code - Section 439: Operation of Government-owned alcohol plants; location; transfer of plants

Search 7 U.S.C. § 439 : US Code - 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.