on labor supply and utilization, (2) the relation of labor supply to materials and facilities requirements, (3) such other matters as will assist in making the exercise of priority and allocations functions consistent with effective utilization and distribution of labor.

(c) Formulate plans, programs, and policies for meeting defense and essential civilian labor requirements.

(d) Utilize the public employment service system, and enlist the cooperation and assistance of management and labor to carry out these plans and programs and accomplish their objectives.

(e) Determine the occupations critical to meeting the labor requirements of defense and essential civilian activities and with the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Selective Service, and such other persons as the President may designate develop policies applicable to the induction and deferment of personnel for the armed services, except for civilian personnel in the reserves.

PART VII-VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS

Sec. 701.-(a) The functions conferred upon the President by section 708 (a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [section 2158 (a) of this Appendix] are hereby delegated as follows:

(1) To the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce, and to the commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission referred to in section 101 of this Executive order, respectively, according to the designations of materials and facilities set forth in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of such section 101. (2) To the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System with respect to financing.

(3) To the Economic Stabilization Administrator with respect to stabilization. (b) The functions conferred upon the President by section 708 (b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [section 2158 (b) of this Appendix] are hereby delegated as follows:

(1) To the Secretary of Commerce in respect of Title I of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [sections 2071-2073 of this Appendix].

(2) In other respects to the delegates referred to in section 701 (a) of this Executive order, respectively, according to the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) thereof.

(c) The delegation of authority made by section 701 (b) of this Executive order is subject to the conditions (1) that each delegate concerned shall consult with the Attorney General and the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission not less than ten days before making any request or finding under section 708 (b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [section 2158 (b) of this Appendix], (2) that each delegate concerned shall obtain the approval of the Attorney General to any request under said section 708 (b) [section 2158 (b) of this Appendix] before making the request, and (3) that the authority delegated may not be redelegated.

PART VIII-COORDINATION

Sec. 801.-In the interest of consistent and coordinated administration of functions delegated by this Executive order, each officer to whom functions are delegated shall be guided by such policies and program directives as the President may from time to time prescribe.

Sec. 802.-The Chairman of the National Security Resources Board shall, in the interest of assisting the President to coordinate the functions delegated by this Executive order, and on behalf of the President.

(a) Resolve interagency issues which otherwise would require the attention of the President.

(b) Prescribe policy and program directives having the approval of the President.

(c) Obtain reports and information on the status of work in the various agencies designated in this Executive order.

(d) Take such measures to obtain coordination of related policies and activities among the various agencies as he may determine.

(e) Advise the President on the progress of the defense production program and make such recommendations as he may deem proper.

Sec. 803.-The Council of Economic Advisers shall adapt its continuing studies of employment, production and purchasing power needs and objectives so as to furnish guides to the agencies under this Executive order in promoting balance between defense and civilian needs and in avoiding inflation in a stable and

growing economy. In the performance of this function, the Council shall obtain necessary information from the agencies concerned and engage in regular consultation with them.

PART IX-GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 901.-As used in this Executive order:

(a) The term "functions" includes powers, duties, authority, responsibilities, and discretion.

(b) The term "materials" includes raw materials, articles, commodities, products, supplies, components, technical information, and processes, but excludes fissionable materials as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 [sections 18011819 of Title 42].

(c) The term "petroleum" shall mean crude oil and synthetic liquid fuel, their products, and associated hydrocarbons, including pipelines for the movement thereof.

(d) The term "gas” shall mean natural gas and manufactured gas, including pipelines for the movement thereof.

(e) The term "solid fuels' shall mean all forms of anthracite, bituminous, sub-bituminous, and lignitic coals, and coke and its byproducts.

(f) The term "electric power" shall mean all forms of electric power and energy, including the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization thereof.

(g) The term "metals and minerals'' shall mean all raw materials of mineral origin, including their refining and processing but excluding their fabrication. (h) The term "food" shall mean all commodities and products, simple, mixed, or compound, or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being eaten or drunk by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for immediate human or animal consumption. For the purposes of this Executive order the term "food" shall also include all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool, mohair, hemp, flax fiber, and naval stores, but shall not include any such material after it loses its identity as an agricul tural commodity or agricultural product.

(i) The term "farm equipment" shall mean equipment manufactured for use on farms in connection with the production or processing of food.

(j) The term "fertilizer" shall mean fertilizer in form for distribution to the users thereof.

(k) The term "domestic transportation, storage, and port facilities' shall include locomotives, cars, motor vehicles, watercraft used on inland waterways, in harbors, and on the Great Lakes, and other vehicles, vessels, and all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership, and all services in or in connection with the carriage of persons or property in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce within the United States, except movement of petroleum and gas by pipeline; and warehouses, piers, docks, wharves, loading and unloading equipment, and all other structures and facilities used in connection with the transshipment of persons and property between domestic carriers and carriers engaged in coastwise, intercoastal, and overseas transportation.

Sec. 902.-(a) Except as otherwise provided in section 902 (c) of this Executive order, each officer or agency having functions under the Defense Production Act of 1950 [sections 2061-2166 of this Appendix] delegated or assigned thereto by this Executive order may exercise and perform, with respect to such funetions, the functions vested in the President by Title VII of the said Act [sections 2151-2166 of this Appendix].

(b) The functions which may be exercised and performed pursuant to the authority of section 902 (a) of this Executive order shall include, but not by way of limitation, (1) except as otherwise provided in section 701 (c) of this Executive order, and except as otherwise required by section 403 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [section 2103 of this Appendix] the power to redelegate functions, and to authorize the successive redelegation of functions, to agencies, officers, and employees of the Government, (2) the power to create an agency or agencies, under the jurisdiction of the officer concerned, to administer functions delegated by this Executive order, and (3) in respect of Parts I, II, IV, and V of this Executive order, the power of subpoena: Provided, That the subpoena power shall be utilized only after the scope and purpose of the investigation, inspection, or inquiry to which the subpoena relates have been defined either by

the appropriate officer referred to in section 902 (a) of this Executive order or by such other person or persons as he shall designate.

(c) There are excluded from the functions delegated by section 902 (a) of this Executive order (1) the functions delegated by Part VII of this Executive order, (2) the functions of the President under sections 703 (b) and 710 (a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [sections 2153 (b) and 2160 (a) of this Appendix] (3) the functions of the President with respect to regulations under sections 710 (b), 710 (c), and 710 (d) of the said Act [section 2160 (b)-(d) of this Appendix], and (4) the functions of the President with respect to fixing compensation under section 703 (a) of the said Act [section 2153 (a) of this title]. (d) The functions conferred upon the President by section 710 (a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [section 2160 (a) of this Appendix] are hereby delegated as follows:

(1) Each officer or agency having functions under the said Act [sections 20612166 of this Appendix] delegated or assigned to such officer or agency by this Executive order shall submit to the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission such requests for classification of positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule as may be necessary, and shall accompany any such request with a certificate stating that the duties of the position are essential and appropriate for the administration of the said Act [sections 2061-2166 of this Appendix].

(2) Each requested position shall be placed in the appropriate grade of the General Schedule in accordance with the standards and procedures of the Classification Act of 1949 [sections 1071-1153 of this Appendix]. No person shall be employed in a position of grade 16, 17, or 18 under authority of section 710 (a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 [section 2160 (a) of this title] except pursuant to notice of the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission of the classification of the position.

Sec. 903.-All agencies of the Government (including departments, establishments, and corporations) shall furnish to each officer to whom functions are delegated or assigned by this Executive order such information relating to defense production or procurement, or otherwise relating to the functions delegated or assigned to such officer by this Executive order, as he may deem necessary.

Sec. 904.-Each delegate referred to in section 101 of this Executive order shall, when and if he shall deem it necessary and appropriate, appoint a committee composed of representatives of such agencies of the Government as he may determine. Any committee so appointed shall advise and consult with the delegate concerned, as he may request, in connection with the carrying out of the functions delegated to him by sections 101, 201, and 302 of this Executive order and shall advise the delegate concerned regarding requirements of materials and facilities.

§ 2072. Hoarding of designated scarce materials. In order to prevent hoarding, no person shall accumulate (1) in excess of the reasonable demands of business, personal, or home consumption, or (2) for the purpose of resale at prices in excess of prevailing market prices, materials which have been designated by the President as scarce materials or materials the supply of which would be threatened by such accumulation. The President shall order published in the Federal Register, and in such other manner as he may deem appropriate every designation of materials the accumulation of which is unlawful and any withdrawal of such designation. This section shall not be construed to limit the authority contained in section 101 of this Act [section 2071 of this Appendix]. (Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, Title I, § 102, 64 Stat. 799.)

§ 2073. Penalties for violation of title.-Any person who willfully performs any act prohibited, or willfully fails to perform any act required, by the provisions of this title or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. (Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, Title I, § 103, 64 Stat. 799.)

TITLE II—AUTHORITY TO REQUISITION

§ 2081. Requisition of property needed for national defense-Procedure; compensation.-(a) Whenever the President determines (1) that the use of any equipment, supplies, or component parts thereof, or materials or facilities necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation of such equipment, supplies, or component parts, is needed for the national defense, (2) that such need is immediate and impending and such as will not admit of delay or resort to any other source of supply, and (3) that all other means of obtaining the use of such property for the defense of the United States upon fair and reasonable terms have been exhausted, he is authorized to requisition such property or the use thereof for the defense of the United States upon the payment of just compensation for such property or the use thereof to be determined as hereinafter provided. The President shall promptly determine the amount of the compensation to be paid for any property or the use thereof requisitioned pursuant to this title but each such determination shall be made as of the time it is requisitioned in accordance with the provision for just compensation in the fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. If the person entitled to receive the amount so determined by the President as just compensation is unwilling to accept the same as full and complete compensation for such property or the use thereof, he shall be paid promptly 75 per centum of such amount and shall be entitled to recover from the United States, in an action brought in the Court of Claims or, without regard to whether the amount involved exceeds $10,000, in any district court of the United States, within three years after the date of the President's award, an additional amount which, when added to the amount so paid to him, shall be just compensation.

(b) Disposition of real property.-Whenever the President determines that any real property acquired under this title [this section] and retained is no longer needed for the defense of the United States, he shall, if the original owner desires the property and pays the fair value thereof, return such property to the owner. In the event the President and the original owner do not agree as to the fair value of the property, the fair value shall be determined by three appraisers, one of whom shall be chosen by the President, one by the original owner, and the third by the first two appraisers; the expenses of such determination shall be paid in equal shares by the Government and the original owner.

(c) Disposition of personal property.-Whenever the need for the national defense of any personal property requisitioned under this title [this section] shall terminate, the President may dispose of such property on such terms and conditions as he shall deem appropriate, but to the extent feasible and practicable he shall give the former owner of any property so disposed of an opportunity to reacquire it (1) at its then fair value as determined by the President, or (2) if it is to be disposed of (otherwise than at a public sale of which he is given reasonable notice) at less than such value, at the highest price any other person is willing to pay therefor: Provided, That this opportunity to reacquire need not be given in the case of fungibles or items having a fair value of less than $1,000. (Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, Title II, § 201, 64 Stat. 799.)

TITLE III-EXPANSION OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AND SUPPLY

§ 2091. Loan guarantees-Purpose of loans; guaranteeing agencies. (a) In order to expedite production and deliveries or services under Government contracts, the President may authorize, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Commerce, and such other agencies of the United States engaged in procurement for the national defense as he may designate (hereinafter referred to as "guaranteeing agencies'), without regard to provisions of law relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts, to guarantee in whole or in part any public or private financing institution (including any Federal Reserve bank), by commitment to purchase, agreement to share losses, or otherwise, against loss of principal or interest on any loan, discount, or advance, or on any commitment in connection therewith, which may be made by such financing institution for the purpose of financing any contractor, subcontractor, or other person in connection with the performance, or in connection with or in contemplation of the termination, of any contract or other operation deemed by the guaranteeing agency to be necessary to expedite production and deliveries or services under Government contracts for the procurement of materials or the performance of services for the national defense.

(b) Fiscal agents; accountability; reimbursement.-Any Federal agency or any Federal Reserve bank, when designated by the President, is authorized to act, on behalf of any guaranteeing agency, as fiscal agent of the United States in the making of such contracts of guarantee and in otherwise carrying out the purposes of this section. All such funds as may be necessary to enable any such fiscal agent to carry out any guarantee made by it on behalf of any guaranteeing agency shall be supplied and disbursed by or under authority from such guaranteeing agency. No such fiscal agent shall have any responsibility or accountability except as agent in taking any action pursuant to or under authority of the provisions of this section. Each such fiscal agent shall be reimbursed by each guaranteeing agency for all expenses and losses incurred by such fiscal agent in acting as agent on behalf of such guaranteeing agency, including among such expenses, notwithstanding any other provision of law, attorneys' fees and expenses of litigation.

(c) Supervision; interest, fees, procedures.-All actions and operations of such fiscal agents under authority of or pursuant to this section shall be subject to the supervision of the President, and to such regulations as he may prescribe; and the President is authorized to prescribe, either specifically or by maximum limits or otherwise, rates of interest, guarantee and commitment fees, and other charges which may be made in connection with loans, discounts, advances, or commitments guaranteed by the guaranteeing agencies through such fiscal agents, and to prescribe regulations governing the forms and procedures (which shall be uniform to the extent practicable) to be utilized in connection with such guarantees.

(d) Funds available for guarantees.-Each guaranteeing agency is authorized to use for the purposes of this section any funds which have