(b) Section 202 (c) (1) (B) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, is repealed.

(c) The proviso in section 204 (h) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, is repealed.

SEC. 208. Section 202 (d) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, is amended by inserting after "204 (i) (1) or (2)" the following: ", 204 (k), or 204 (1)".

SEC. 209. The first sentence of section 204 (b) (1) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, is amended by striking out “(h) and (i)” and inserting in lieu thereof "(h), (i), (k), (1), and (o)”.

SEC. 210. Nothing in this Act or in the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, shall be construed to require any person to offer any housing accommodations for rent.

SEC. 211. (a) The last sentence of section 4 (c) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, is amended by inserting after the word "section" the following: "for persons engaged in national defense activities and".

(b) Section 4 (e) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, is amended by striking out "July 31, 1951" and inserting in lieu thereof “June 30, 1952".

(c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

"(f) For the purposes of this section, any parent of a member of the armed forces of the United States who lost his life in the armed services of the United States since September 16, 1940, shall be considered to be a member of the family of a veteran of World War II."

SEC. 212. Section 215 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1946 (59 Stat. 134), and section 213 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 81), are hereby repealed.

Approved July 31, 1951, 7:00 p. m., E. D. T.

EXHIBIT 9

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF AUGUST 1, 1951, ANNOUNCING HIS INTENTION OF CREATING THE DEFENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT AGENCY

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

AUGUST 1, 1951.

The Federal Government's programs for purchasing and increasing the supply of critical and strategic materials are vital to the security of this Nation. It is esential that we have ample supplies of basic and rare materials if we re to fulfill our mobilization goals during the coming months and if we are to maintain the expanding national economy which gives us one of the necessary elements of strength in international affairs.

I have decided, therefore, that we must give special attention to our organization for assuring the continued supply of critical and strategic materials. Accordingly, I am creating, under the authority of the newly extended Defense Production Act, a new independent agency whose sole job will be to procure and to increase the supply of critical and strategic materials at home and abroad. These new organizational arrangements are being mde upon the recommendation of the Director of Defense Mobilization, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Director of the Budget, with the concurrence of the Administrator of General Services, the Economic Cooperation Administrator, and other interested officials of the Government. I am confident that they will provide the Government with better machinery for continuing the vital functions of maintaining an ample supply of critical and strategic materials for our economy.

This new agency will be called the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. It will be headed by an Administrator to be appointed by me with the advice and consent of the Senate. I expect to nominate Mr. Jess Larson, who will be relieved of his present duties as General Services Administrator, to be the Administrator of the new agency. He will administer the Defense Materials Procurement Agency under the direction, control, and coordination of the Director of

Defense Mobilization. The reorganization will be effected as soon as the necessary orders can be arranged by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

The various procurement and development functions presently vested in the General Services Administration, the Department of the Interior, the Economic Cooperation Administration, and the Defense Production Administration will be transferred to the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. Specifically, the following functions will be transferred and consolidated in the Defense Materials Procurement Agency:

From the Defense Minerals Administration in the Department of the Interior: Responsibility for materials supply expansion, including development of supply expansion programs;

Responsibility for recommending tax amortization for materials expansion

actions;

Responsibility for certifying Defense Production Administration loans to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for materials expansion actions. From the General Services Administration:

Responsibliity for materials procurement under the Defense Production

Act.

By delegation from the Economic Cooperation Administration:

Responsibility for serving as the agency to perform Economic Cooperation Administration materials procurement actions.

Under the planned arrangements, the Defense Materials Procurement Agency will become the operating agency for procuring and increasing the supply of critical and strategic materials both domestically and abroad. The Defense Production Administrator will continue to exercise his responsibilities concerning the development of materials requirements and will certify to the Defense Materials Procurement Agency the materials needed in the economy. The new agency will undertake both the necessary spot procurement and the development and execution of materials expansion programs.

Under the new arrangements there will be retained in the Department of the Interior-in the metals and minerals field-the regular statutory responsibilities of the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey, expanded to provide additional services required by the emergency programs. Also, the Department of the Interior will continue to administer the domestic exploration loans program authorized by the Defense Production Act and will carry on the priorities and allocations functions with respect to metals and minerals under that act.

The General Services Administration will continue its present responsibilities for stockpile procurement. As a rule, however, the General Services Administration will purchase stockpile materials from the Defense Materials Procurement Agency, which will act as the sole Government procuring authority for nonagricultural materials. The present arrangements for developing stockpile requirements will remain unchanged, and the General Services Administration will continue as the financial and custodial agency for the stockpile.

In providing a new agency for administering a more unified program for procuring and increasing the supply of critical and strategic materials, I shall expect that it will utilize to the maximum extent the resources of all agencies in the conduct of scheduled procurement and development projects.

EXHIBIT 10

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON SIGNING EXECUTIVE ORDER 10281, CREATING THE DEFENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT AGENCY Immediate release

AUGUST 28, 1951.

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

I have today signed an Executive order establishing the Defense Materials Procurement Agency and making further arrangements for the handling of loans to stimulate defense production.

The Defense Materials Procurement Agency is being established pursuant to the policy announced in my statement of August 1, 1951. This new agency will have centralized responsibility for procuring strategic and critical materials at home and abroad. The agency will also have responsibility for the Government's efforts to stimulate increased production of these materials, using the powers available under title III of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.

Under the Executive order signed today, the Defense Materials Procurement Agency will be responsible for the following specific tasks:

(1) Purchase and make commitments to purchase metals, minerals, and other materials for Government use or resale under section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. This involves no change in the Department of Agriculture's present authority to purchase food.

(2) Encourage the exploration, development, and mining of critical and strategic minerals and metals under section 303 of the act. It is expected that the DMPA will redelegate to the Department of the Interior responsibility for the domestic phase of exploration for metals and minerals.

(3) Make any subsidy payments under section 303 (c) of the act which may be necessary to maintain assential production.

(4) Serve as a guaranteeing agency in connection with the financing of production and deliveries or services under Government contracts in accordance with section 301 of the act.

(5) Install additional equipment, facilities, processes, and improvements in Government-owned and private plants, factories, and facilities. Assignment of these tasks to the new agency represents a consolidation of certain functions previously performed by a number of other agencies, particularly the General Services Administration and the Defense Minerals Administration in the Department of Interior. Arrangements are now being completed for delegation to the new agency of certain other functions not transferred by this order, including the minerals and metals procurement program of the Economic Cooperation Administration.

The new agency will be subject to direction, control, and coordination by the Director of Defense Mobilization. It will operate within the framework of program objectives approved by the Defense Production Administrator.

The Defense Materials Procurement Agency will be headed by Mr. Jess Larson, now Administrator of General Services.

The Executive order signed today also redefines arrangements for loans of Government funds under section 302 of the Defense Production Act of 1950. These are loans to private business enterprises for the expansion of capacity, the development of technological processes and the production of essential materials, including the exploration, development, and mining of strategic and critical metals and minerals.

The order provides that such loans will be handled through the Export-Import Bank of Washington, when the funds are to be used for expansion, development, or production in foreign countries. This includes loans to domestic borrowers for use abroad. These loans will be made by the bank only upon a certificate of essentiality made by the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of food and by the Defense Production Administrator in all other cases, and will be made only in the event that private funds and the regular funds of the Export-Import Bank are unavailable for the loan involved. The terms and conditions of the loans will be determined by the bank.

All loans for domestic use under section 302, will continue to be handled by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The order provides that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will determine the terms and conditions of these loans, instead of having the determination made by the various production agencies as has occurred in the past. Certificates of essentiality from the Defense Production Administrator or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, wili be required in cases where these loans are for the expansion of capacity. These certificates will no longer be necessary for loans involving working capital only, but the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will be required to check in advance with the procurement agencies concerned, as to the need for any working capital loan.

Loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under section 302 of the Defense Production Act will continue to be restricted to those instances where neither private funds nor the regular funds of the RFC are available for the purpose.

EXHIBIT 11

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10281-ESTABLISHING THE DEFENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT AGENCY AND REDEFINING ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEFENSE LOANS

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10281

DEFENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and Title II of the First War Powers Act, 1941, as amended, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

PART 1. DEFENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT AGENCY

SECTION 101. (a) There is hereby created an agency which shall be known as the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. There shal be at the head of the said agency a Defense Materials Procurement Administrator, who shall perform his duties subject to direction, control, and coordination by the Director of Defense Mobilization.

(b) The Defense Materials Procurement Administrator shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. There may be appointed to the office of Defense Materials Procurement Administrator any officer of the Executive Branch of the Government designated by the President, to hold the office of Defense Materials Procurement Administrator in addition to his other office: Provided, That the office of Administrator shall have no compensation attached to it as long as it is held by any other officer of the Government.

PART II. FUNCTIONS OF THE DEFENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT ADMINISTRATOR SECTION 201. Sections 303 and 304 of Executive Order No. 10161 of September 9, 1950 (15 F. R. 6105-6106), as amended, are hereby revoked, and there are hereby inserted in lieu thereof the following new sections:

"SEC. 303. The Defense Materials Procurement Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to purchase and make commitments to purchase metals, minerals, and other materials, for Government use or resale, as authorized by and subject to the provisions of section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture is also authorized to exercise the said functions under section 303 of the said Act, as amended, with respect to food.

"SEC. 304. The Defense Materials Procurement Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to encourage the exploration, development, and mining of critical and strategic minerals and metals, as authorized by and subject to the provisions of section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. "SEC. 305. The Defense Materials Procurement Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to make subsidy payments, to determine the amounts, manner, terms, and conditions thereof, and to make findings, as authorized by and subject to the provisions of section 303 (c) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.

"SEC. 306. The functions conferred upon the President by section 303 (c) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, with respect to the installation of additional equipment, facilities, processes, or improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the United States Government, and with respect to the installation of government-owned equipment in plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by private persons, are hereby delegated to the Defense Materials Procurement Administrator.

"SEC. 307. The functions conferred upon the Defense Materials Procurement Administrator by sections 303 to 306, inclusive, of this Executive order, shall be carried out in accordance with programs certified to the said Administrator by the Defense Production Administrator: Provided, That any exercise by the Defense Materials Procurement Administrator of the functions provided for in section 303 hereof with respect to food shall be carried out in accordance with programs certified to him by the Secretary of Agriculture.

"SEC. 308. All functions provided for in sections 303 to 306, inclusive, of this Executive order shall be carried out within such amounts of funds as may be made available pursuant to the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. "SEC. 309. The Economic Stabilization Administrator may from time to time recommend to appropriate agencies of the Government the use for stabilization purposes of subsidies authorized by the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended."

SEC. 202. The Defense Materials Procurement Agency is hereby designated as an additional guaranteeing agency under section 301 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended; and, accordingly, section 301 of Executive Order No. 10161 of September 9, 1950, as amended, is hereby amended by inserting therein, after the words "the Department of Agriculture," the words "the Defense Materials Procurement Agency,".

SEC. 203. The provisions of Part I of Executive Order No. 10210 of February 2, 1951 (16 F. R. 1049), entitled "Authorizing the Department of Defense and the Department of Commerce To Exercise the Functions and Powers Set Forth in Title II of the First War Powers Act, 1941, as Amended by the Act of January 12, 1951, and Prescribing Regulations for the Exercise of Such Functions and Powers", are hereby extended to the Defense Materials Procurement Agency; and, subject to the limitations and regulations contained in such Part I and under such regulations as he may prescribe, the Defense Materials Procurement Administrator is authorized to perform and exercise, as to the Defense Materials Procurement Agency, all the functions and authority vested in and granted by Part I of the said Executive Order No. 10210 to the Secretaries named therein: Provided, That the regulations so prescribed need not be approved by the Secretary of Defense: And provided further, That nothing contained herein shall prejudice any other authority which the Defense Materials Procurement Agency or the Defense Materials Procurement Administrator may have with respect to procurement.

PART III. LOANS TO PRIVATE BUSINESS ENTERPRISES

SECTION 301. Part III of Executive Order No. 10161 of September 9, 1950, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding after section 309 thereof (as added by Part II of this Executive order) the following new sections:

"SEC. 310. (a) The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is hereby authorized and directed to make loans (including participations in, or guarantees of, loans) to private business enterprises (including research corporations not organized for profit) for the expansion of capacity, the development of technological processes, and the production of essential materials, including the exploration, development, and mining of strategic and critical metals and minerals, exclusive of such expansion, development and production in foreign countries, as authorized by and subject to section 302 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and within such amounts of funds as may be made available pursuant to the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.

"(b) Loans under section 310 (a) hereof (1) shall be made upon such terms and conditions as the Corporation shall determine, (2) shall be made only after the Corporation has determined in each instance that financial assistance is not available on reasonable terms from private sources or from other governmental sources, and (3) except in the case of working capital loans (involving no more than minor expansion of capacity which is incidental to a loan for working capital) shall be made only upon certificate of essentiality of the loan, which certificate shall be made by the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food and food facilities and by the Defense Production Administrator with respect to all other materials and facilities.

"(c) Applications for loans under section 310 (a) hereof shall be received from applicants by the Corporation or by such agencies of the Government as the Corporation shall designate for this purpose.

"SEC. 311. (a) The Export-Import Bank of Washington is hereby authorized and directed to make loans (including participations in loans) to private business enterprises, for the expansion of capacity, the development of technological processes, and the production of essential materials, including the exploration, development, and mining of strategic and critical metals and minerals, in those cases where such expansion, development or production is carried on in foreign countries, as authorized by and subject to section 302 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and within such amounts of funds as may be made available pursuant to the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.